CVE-2008-5987

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5987

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-5987.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-5987

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5987

Published

2009-01-28T11:30:00Z

Modified

2025-08-09T20:01:27Z

Summary

[none]

Details

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33443

CVE-2008-5987

Affected packages