Security bugs are reported here via bugzilla

[Thomas Houssin <Thomas.Houssin AT gmail.com>]

Synopsis
========
Cheetah 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 searches the /tmp directory for modules before
using the paths in the PYTHONPATH variable, which allows local users to
execute arbitrary code via a malicious module in /tmp/.

Background
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Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator.

Description
===========
CAN-2005-1632 :
Brian Bird has reported a vulnerability in Cheetah, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to Cheetah searching for modules in the
world-writable "/tmp" directory before looking in the PythonPath when
importing modules. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with
escalated privileges by placing a malicious module in the "/tmp" directory.


Affected packages
=================
cheetah in all grimoires is affected.
This is now fixed in devel, test, stable-rc and stable grimoire.

Resolution
==========
All cheetah users should upgrade to the latest available version:
        #scribe update
        #cast -c cheetah

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Thomas Houssin

Security Team Lead : Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org
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