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Security ERRATA Moderate: dstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:19:28 -0600
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Synopsis:	Moderate: dstat security update
Issue date:	2009-11-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-3894

CVE-2009-3894 dstat insecure module search path

Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported a flaw in the 
Python module search path used in dstat. If a local attacker could trick 
a local user into running dstat from a directory containing a Python 
script that is named like an importable module, they could execute 
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running dstat. 
(CVE-2009-3894)


SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.src.rpm
     i386:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.noarch.rpm
     x86_64:
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5_4.1.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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