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Gentoo: 200903-16 Normal: Epiphany Untrusted Path Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
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A vulnerability in Epiphany's untrusted path could allow malicious code execution; users of Gentoo should take steps to protect their setups.
An untrusted search path vulnerability in Epiphany might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Epiphany: Untrusted search path Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #257000 ID: 200903-16

Synopsis ======= An untrusted search path vulnerability in Epiphany might result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/epiphany < 2.22.3-r2 >= 2.22.3-r2
========== James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface.
Impact ===== A local attacker could entice a user to run Epiphany from a directory contain...

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