PT-2009-1461 · Csound · Csound

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-01-28 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5986

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Csound versions 5.08.2 and possibly other versions

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory. This is related to a vulnerability in the PySys SetArgv function.

Recommendations For version 5.08.2, consider restricting the execution of Python files from untrusted sources until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5986

Affected Products

Csound

References · 9

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5986 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481550 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33446 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504359 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48276 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 · Note