CVE-2008-5983

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.

Date published : 2009-01-27

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml