Security
Security
Cheetah contains a vulnerability in the module importing code that can allow a local user to gain escalated privileges.
| Package | dev-python/cheetah on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 0.9.17_rc1 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 0.9.17_rc1 |
Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator.
Brian Bird discovered that Cheetah searches for modules in the world-writable /tmp directory.
A malicious local user could place a module containing arbitrary code in /tmp, which when imported would run with escalated privileges.
There are no known workarounds at this time.
All Cheetah users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/cheetah-0.9.17_rc1"
Release date
May 19, 2005
Latest revision
May 17, 2006: 02
Severity
normal
Exploitable
local
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