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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1465-1] New apt-listchanges packages fix arbitrary code execution



On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:38:45PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> Felipe Sateler discovered that apt-listchanges, a package change history
> notification tool, used unsafe paths when importing its python libraries.
> This could allow the execution of arbitary shell commands if the root user
> executed the command in a directory which other local users may write
> to.

Still that breaks because os is not imported.  Please fix.  Quickly.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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