TITLE:
Stani's Python Editor Insecure Default File Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17224

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17224/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Stani's Python Editor (SPE) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5881/

DESCRIPTION:
Bryan Ostergaard has reported a security issue in Stani's Python
Editor (SPE), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the files belonging to SPE being
installed with world-writable permissions. This can be exploited by
malicious users to modify SPE's Python scripts, potentially including
malicious content.

The security issue has been reported in version 0.7.5.c. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Remove world-writable permissions from the affected files.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bryan Ostergaard

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Gentoo Bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108538

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