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TITLE:
Dstat Insecure Plugin Search Path Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37445

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37445/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Dstat, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is caused due to the application loading plugins from the
current working directory and the "plugins" subdirectory. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary Python code with the privileges of
another user by tricking the user into executing dstat in a directory
containing malicious plugins.

Note: This has been documented behavior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.7.0.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/dstat-0.7.0.tar.bz2

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Robert Buchholz, Gentoo Security Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/dstat/ChangeLog

GLSA-200911-04:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200911-04.xml

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