PT-2009-2978 · Gnome · Gedit

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-01-28 · Updated 2020-06-15 · CVE-2009-0314

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 gedit (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python module of gedit, allowing local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory. This is connected to a vulnerability in the PySys SetArgv function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0314

DTSA-191-1

Affected Products

Gedit

References · 15

• 🔥 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556 · Exploit
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-0314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0314 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:039 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg01195.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33445 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48271 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33759 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34522 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33769 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 · Note