klieber
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 Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:25 pm Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: python |
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :python
SUMMARY :os.execvpe() vulnerability
DATE :2002-10-03 14:45 UTC
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OVERVIEW
By exploiting this vulnerability a local attacker can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running python code which uses the execvpe() method.
DETAIL
Zack Weinberg found a vulnerability in the way the exevpe() method from the os.py module uses a temporary file name. A file which supposedly should not exist is created in a unsafe way and the method tries to execute it. The objective of such code is to discover what error the operating system returns in a portable way.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running dev-lang/python-2.2.1-r4 and earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge python
emerge clean
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--kurt
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