GLSA-201001-07 : Blender: Untrusted search path

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44896

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201001-07 (Blender: Untrusted search path)

Steffen Joeris reported that Blender's BPY_interface calls PySys_SetArgv() in such a way that Python prepends sys.path with an empty string.
Impact :

A local attacker could entice a user to run 'blender' 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.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Blender users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-gfx/blender-2.48a-r3'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-07

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44896

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201001-07.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 2/25/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:blender, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4863

BID: 31931

GLSA: 201001-07