Executive Summary

Summary
Title Epiphany: Untrusted search path
Informations
Name GLSA-200903-16 First vendor Publication 2009-03-09
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-03-09
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

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

Background

Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.

Description

James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface.

Impact

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

Do not run "epiphany" from untrusted working directories.

Resolution

All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2"

References

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

Availability

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

Original Source

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-723-1 (git-core)
File : nvt/ubuntu_723_1.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : FreeBSD Ports: epiphany
File : nvt/freebsd_epiphany.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-16 (epiphany)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_16.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:048 (epiphany)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_048.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:048-1 (epiphany)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_048_1.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:048-2 (epiphany)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_048_2.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
53373 Python PySys_SetArgv API Function Search Path Subversion Local Privilege Esca...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-01-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0027.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_e848a92f0e7d11de92de000bcdc1757a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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