CVE-2009-0315 (GCVE-0-2009-0315)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-01-28 11:00
Modified
2024-08-07 04:31
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python module in xchat allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).
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