Vulnerability CVE-2008-5987
Published: 2009-01-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> EOG 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33443
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352
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