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Scientific Linux 5.x: CVE-2009-3894 Moderate Dstat Insecure Path

Calendar Dec 01, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate severity dstat insecure path scientific linux
Moderate: dstat security update 
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:19:28 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: dstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: dstat security update
Issue date:	2009-11-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-3894

CVE-2009-3894 dstat insecure module search path

Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported a flaw in the
Python module search path used in dstat. If a local attacker could trick
a local user into running dstat from a directory containing a Python
script that is named like an importable module, they could execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running dstat.
(CVE-2009-3894)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.src.rpm
 i386:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson