[PLSA 2008-66] Blender: Arbitrary Code Execution

[Pınar Yanardağ <pinar () pardus org tr>]

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-66            security () pardus org tr
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      Date: 2008-11-07
  Severity: 2
      Type: Local
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Summary
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Untrusted search path vulnerability in BPY_interface  in  Blender  2.46 
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. 


Description
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This  vulnerability provides  administrator  access,  Allows  complete  
confidentiality,   integrity, and   availability   violation;   Allows  
unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2008:
    blender, all before 2.47-14-3


Resolution
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There are update(s) for blender. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up blender

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8579
  * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503632
  * http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-4863

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http://security.pardus.org.tr


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