Bug#513419: nautilus-python: CVE-2009-0317 untrusted search path vulnerability

[Nico Golde]

Package: nautilus-python
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for nautilus-python.

CVE-2009-0317[0]:
| Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python language bindings
| for Nautilus (nautilus-python) 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).

To fix this you need to patch src/nautilus-python.c in the 
same way as 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=CVE-2009-0318.patch;att=1;bug=513418
should be sufficient.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0317
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0317

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