CVE-2009-0318 Information

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in Gnumeric 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).

Reference

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569648 http://secunia.com/advisories/33707 http://secunia.com/advisories/33823 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:043 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33438 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481572 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00211.html