Hi, I am uploading a 0-day NMU to fix this bug. debdiff attached and archived on: http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/csound-5.08.2~dfsg-1_5.08.2~dfsg-1.1.patch
Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
diff -u csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/changelog csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/changelog
--- csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/changelog
+++ csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+csound (1:5.08.2~dfsg-1.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
+ * Fix insecure python search path by adding patch provided by
+ James Vega (No CVE id yet; Closes: #504359).
+
+ -- Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:20:13 +0100
+
csound (1:5.08.2~dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Jonas Smedegaard ]
diff -u csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/patches/series csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/patches/series
+++ csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
1001-fix-csoundac-amd64.diff
1002-type-punning.diff
1003-abi-plugin-dir.diff
+1004-sanitize-sys.path.diff
2000-avoid-nonfree-scansyn-plugin.diff
2001-lua-link.diff
2002-csoundac.diff
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- csound-5.08.2~dfsg.orig/debian/patches/1004-sanitize-sys.path.diff
+++ csound-5.08.2~dfsg/debian/patches/1004-sanitize-sys.path.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- a/frontends/CsoundAC/Shell.cpp
++++ b/frontends/CsoundAC/Shell.cpp
+@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ namespace csound
+ void Shell::main(int argc, char **argv)
+ {
+ PySys_SetArgv_(argc, argv);
++ /* Sanitize sys.path */
++ PyRun_SimpleString_("import sys; sys.path = filter(None, sys.path)");
+ }
+
+ void Shell::initialize()
+--- a/frontends/CsoundVST/ScoreGeneratorVst.cpp
++++ b/frontends/CsoundVST/ScoreGeneratorVst.cpp
+@@ -427,6 +427,8 @@
+ Shell::open();
+ char *argv[] = {"",""};
+ PySys_SetArgv(1, argv);
++ /* Sanitize sys.path */
++ PyRun_SimpleString("import sys; sys.path = filter(None, sys.path)");
+ PyObject *mainModule = PyImport_ImportModule("__main__");
+ result = runScript("import sys\n");
+ if(result)
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