fkie_cve-2012-5659
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2013-03-12 23:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4fExploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4fExploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool *
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.0
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.1
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.2
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.3
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4.980
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4.981
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.5
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.6
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.7
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.8


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