Fedora 10 : gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10 (2009-1187)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37553

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit's Python module allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function. References:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214 http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports- untrusted- python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html The latest stable upstream release of gedit. From the release announcement: New Features and Fixes ====================== - Backport some bugfixes from the developement version New and updated translations ============================ - Alexander Shopov (bg) - Priit Laes (et)
- Shankar Prasad (kn)

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.

Solution

Update the affected gedit package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37553

File Name: fedora_2009-1187.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gedit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-1187

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