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Fedora 10 : gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10 (2009-1187)

🗓️ 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10 (2009-1187) allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2009-1187.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(37553);
  script_version("1.12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2009-1187");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 10 : gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10 (2009-1187)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit's Python module allows
local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file
in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of
sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function. References:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214
http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-
untrusted- python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html The latest stable
upstream release of gedit. From the release announcement: New Features
and Fixes ====================== - Backport some bugfixes from the
developement version New and updated translations
============================ - Alexander Shopov (bg) - Priit Laes (et)
- Shankar Prasad (kn)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214"
  );
  # http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ec8f67f2"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2009-January/019634.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?309fa77d"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected gedit package.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gedit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^10([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 10.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC10", reference:"gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gedit");
}

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