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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-04 Normal: Gnumeric Vulnerable Input Handling

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2009
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Gnumeric contains a vulnerability involving an untrusted search path that may lead to arbitrary code execution. It is advised to upgrade.
An untrusted search path vulnerability in Gnumeric might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Gnumeric: Untrusted search path Date: April 03, 2009 Bugs: #257012 ID: 200904-03

Synopsis ======= An untrusted search path vulnerability in Gnumeric might result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-office/gnumeric < 1.8.4-r1 >= 1.8.4-r1
========== James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in Gnumeric.
Impact ===== A local attacker could e...

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