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CVE-2008-5987

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2008-11-02

Bugzilla:: 481553: CVE-2008-5987 eog: untrusted python modules search path

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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).

Find out more about CVE-2008-5987 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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This issue does not affect the versions of the eog package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

Last Modified 2018-04-28T15:56:01+00:00

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