Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200904-06 / eog
Release Date	April 06, 2009
Latest Revision	April 06, 2009: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	local

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-gfx/eog	< 2.22.3-r3	>= 2.22.3-r3	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #257002

Synopsis

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

2. Impact Information

Background

The Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment.

Description

James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerabiliy related to CVE-2008-5983.

Impact

A local attacker could entice a user to run the Eye of GNOME from a directory containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

Do not run "eog" from untrusted working directories.

Resolution

All Eye of GNOME users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3"

4. References

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