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epiphany -- untrusted search path vulnerability

Description:

CVE Mitre reports:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Epiphany 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, 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).

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portaudit: epiphany -- untrusted search path vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>