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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-15 Moderate: GIMP Untrusted Path Execution

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2010
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Blender's insecure directory settings might lead to remote command execution. Apply updates to safeguard Gentoo environments against vulnerabilities.
An untrusted search path vulnerability in Blender might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Steffen Joeris reported that Blender's BPY_interface calls PySys_SetArgv() in such a way that Python prepends sys.path with an empty string.

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All Blender users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/blender-2.48a-r3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4863 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4863

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-07
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Blender: Untrusted search path
Date: January 13, 2010
Bugs: #245310
ID: 201001-07

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

An untrusted search path vulnerability in Blender might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/blender < 2.48a-r3 >= 2.48a-r3

Impact

===== A local attacker could entice a user to run "blender" from a directory containing a specially crafted Python module, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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