-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1187 2009-01-29 22:32:49 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gedit Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.24.3 Release : 3.fc10 URL : http://gedit.sourceforge.net/ Summary : gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME Description : gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.
You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit's Python module allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function. References: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214 http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrus... python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html The latest stable upstream release of gedit. From the release announcement: New Features and Fixes ====================== - Backport some bugfixes from the developement version New and updated translations ============================ - Alexander Shopov (bg) - Priit Laes (et) - Shankar Prasad (kn) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode rstrode@redhat.com - 1:2.24.3-3 - Fix bug 481556 in a more functional way * Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode rstrode@redhat.com - 1:2.24.3-2 - Fix up python plugin path to close up a security attack vectors (bug 481556). * Thu Jan 15 2009 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 1:2.24.3-1 - Update to 2.24.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #481556 - gedit: untrusted python modules search path https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gedit' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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