Gentoo GLSA-200903-41 gedit Local Code Execution Risk Normal Severity

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-41 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: gedit: Untrusted search path Date: March 30, 2009 Bugs: #257004 ID: 200903-41

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in gedit might allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-editors/gedit < 2.24.3 *>= 2.22.3-r1 >= 2.24.3
========== James Vega reported that gedit uses the current working directory when searching for python modules, a vulnerability related to CVE-2008-5983.
Impact ===== ...