[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200903-16 ] Epiphany: Untrusted search path

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-16

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Epiphany: Untrusted search path

Date: March 09, 2009

Bugs: #257000

ID: 200903-16

 

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Synopsis

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An untrusted search path vulnerability in Epiphany might result in the

execution of arbitrary code.

 

Background

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Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine

Gecko.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 www-client/epiphany < 2.22.3-r2 >= 2.22.3-r2

 

Description

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James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the

Python interface.

 

Impact

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A local attacker could entice a user to run Epiphany from a directory

containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in the

execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running

Epiphany.

 

Workaround

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Do not run "epiphany" from untrusted working directories.

 

Resolution

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All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5985

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5985

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-16.xml

 

Concerns?

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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 ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5