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Security Advisory - Python - CVE-2008-5983

Released: Apr 29, 2009     Updated: Apr 29, 2009

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.


Product Version

Linux Platforms 1.x

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Installation Notes

Installation Notes

WIND00154959.zip is for 1.4
WIND00154963.zip is for 1.5
1. Unzip the patch under [install_dir]/updates 
2. Install the patch CD by entering the patch CD directory and run setup_linux. 
3. This is a source only patch so you will have to build the kernel 
4. Issue a make fs and make the kernel in a configured directory. 
5. Upload the kernel and rootfs into the target and boot it up.


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