1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200505-14 / Cheetah |
| Release Date | May 19, 2005 |
| Latest Revision | May 17, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | local |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| dev-python/cheetah | < 0.9.17_rc1 | >= 0.9.17_rc1 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #92926
Cheetah contains a vulnerability in the module importing code that can allow a local user to gain escalated privileges.
Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator.
Brian Bird discovered that Cheetah searches for modules in the world-writable /tmp directory.
A malicious local user could place a module containing arbitrary code in /tmp, which when imported would run with escalated privileges.
There are no known workarounds at this time.
All Cheetah users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/cheetah-0.9.17_rc1" |