CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0315
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python module in xchat 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).
Affected configurations
• xchat xchat
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:059 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33444 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481560 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:059 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33444 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481560 bugzilla.redhat.com