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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-572-1 January 18, 2008 apt-listchanges vulnerability CVE-2008-0302 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.04: apt-listchanges 2.72ubuntu6.1 Ubuntu 7.10: apt-listchanges 2.74ubuntu3.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Felipe Sateler discovered that apt-listchanges did not use safe paths when importing additional Python libraries. A local attacker could exploit this and execute arbitrary commands as the user running apt-listchanges.