GLSA 200904-06: Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path
Date:	04/06/2009
Bugs:	#257002
ID:	200904-06

Synopsis

An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

The Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-gfx/eog	< 2.22.3-r3	>= 2.22.3-r3	All supported architectures

Description

James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerabiliy related to CVE-2008-5983.

Impact

A local attacker could entice a user to run the Eye of GNOME from a directory containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

Do not run "eog" from untrusted working directories.

Resolution

All Eye of GNOME users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.