gaim -- malicious smiley themes

The Gaim Security Issues page documents a problem with installing smiley themes from an untrusted source: To install a new smiley theme, a user can drag a tarball from a graphical file manager, or a hypertext link to one from a web browser. When a tarball is dragged, Gaim executes a shell command...

Python 1.5/1.6/2.0/2.1.x - Pickle Class Constructor Arbitrary Code Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5257/info Python is an open source, object oriented programming language. The Python Pickle module is provided to convert object variables into a serialized form "pickling", and later recover the data back into an object hierarchy "unpickling". A...

Python 1.5.2 Pickle - Unsafe eval() Code Execution

Python 1.5.2 Pickle - Unsafe eval Code Execution source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5255/info Python is an open source, object oriented programming language. The Python Pickle module is provided to convert object variables into a serialized form "pickling", and later recover the data back...