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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200903-16">
+ <title>Epiphany: Untrusted search path</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An untrusted search path vulnerability in Epiphany might result in the
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">epiphany</product>
+ <announced>2009-03-09</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-03-09</revised>
+ <bug>257000</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-client/epiphany" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.22.3-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.22.3-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine
+ Gecko.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the
+ Python interface.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could entice a user to run Epiphany from a directory
+ containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in the
+ execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
+ Epiphany.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ Do not run "epiphany" from untrusted working directories.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5985">CVE-2008-5985</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-07T16:40:03Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-07T18:06:14Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-07T18:06:33Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>