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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-06 Normal: Eye of GNOME Untrusted Path Risk

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical advisory for Gentoo users regarding a vulnerability in Eye of GNOME that facilitates an untrusted search path, thereby presenting a risk for possible code execution.
An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path Date: April 06, 2009 Bugs: #257002 ID: 200904-06

Synopsis ======= An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/eog < 2.22.3-r3 >= 2.22.3-r3
========== James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerabiliy related to CVE-2008-...

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