Fedora 9 : gedit-2.22.3-3.fc9 (2009-1189)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35561

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit's Python module allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function. References:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214 http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports- untrusted- python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html The latest stable upstream release of gedit. From the release announcement: New Features and Fixes ====================== - Backport some bugfixes from the developement version New and updated translations ============================ - Alexander Shopov (bg) - Priit Laes (et)
- Shankar Prasad (kn)

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Solution

Update the affected gedit package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35561

File Name: fedora_2009-1189.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/1/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gedit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0314

FEDORA: 2009-1189

Detections

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