Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in dstat before 0.7.0 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Python module in (1) the current working directory or (2) a certain subdirectory of the current working directory.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1619 :

An updated dstat package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Dstat is a versatile replacement for the vmstat, iostat, and netstat tools. Dstat can be used for performance tuning tests, benchmarks, and troubleshooting.

Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported a flaw in the Python module search path used in dstat. If a local attacker could trick a local user into running dstat from a directory containing a Python script that is named like an importable module, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running dstat.
(CVE-2009-3894)

All dstat users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

CVE-2009-3894 dstat insecure module search path

Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported a flaw in the Python module search path used in dstat. If a local attacker could trick a local user into running dstat from a directory containing a Python script that is named like an importable module, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running dstat.
(CVE-2009-3894)

An updated dstat package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Dstat is a versatile replacement for the vmstat, iostat, and netstat tools. Dstat can be used for performance tuning tests, benchmarks, and troubleshooting.

Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported a flaw in the Python module search path used in dstat. If a local attacker could trick a local user into running dstat from a directory containing a Python script that is named like an importable module, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running dstat.
(CVE-2009-3894)

All dstat users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

This release fixes above mentioned security issue, adds several enhancements and fixes few other bugs. For complete information, please see changelog.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Thu Dec 3 2009 Jan Zeleny <jzeleny at redhat.com> -     0.6.9-5

    - added patch fixing security issue CVE-2009-3894

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200911-04 (dstat: Untrusted search path)

    Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported that dstat     includes the current working directory and subdirectories in the Python     module search path (sys.path) before calling 'import'.
  Impact :

    A local attacker could entice a user to run 'dstat' 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 :

    Do not run 'dstat' from untrusted working directories.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67964	Oracle Linux 5 : dstat (ELSA-2009-1619)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
60698	Scientific Linux Security Update : dstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
43808	CentOS 5 : dstat (CESA-2009:1619)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
43011	Fedora 12 : dstat-0.7.0-1.fc12 (2009-12674)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
43010	Fedora 11 : dstat-0.6.9-5.fc11 (2009-12663)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
42945	RHEL 5 : dstat (RHSA-2009:1619)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
42914	GLSA-200911-04 : dstat: Untrusted search path	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium

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