Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gedit
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-1187.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
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/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-1187
Insight
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.
ChangeLog:
* Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode - 1:2.24.3-3
- Fix bug 481556 in a more functional way
* Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode - 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 - 1:2.24.3-1
- Update to 2.24.3
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