CVE-2008-5987

published 2009-01-28

CVE-2008-5987: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary…

Priority P4 20 medium 6.9 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC M Au N C C I C A C

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	eog	< eog 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)	eog 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)
gnome	eog	—	—
gnome	eog	>= 0 < 2.22.3-2	2.22.3-2
gnome	eog	>= 0 < 2.22.3-2	2.22.3-2
gnome	eog	>= 0 < 2.22.3-2	2.22.3-2
gnome	eog	>= 0 < 2.22.3-2	2.22.3-2

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 6.9 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.9 LOW

vendor_redhat 6.9 MEDIUM

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