The remote host is missing an update to gedit announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-1189.

Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update gedit' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-1189

Update Information: Untrusted search path vulnerability in gedit's Python module allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySys_SetArgv function. ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode - 1:2.22.3-3 - Fix bug 481556 in a more functional way. * Mon Jan 26 2009 Ray Strode - 1:2.22.3-2 - Fix up python plugin path to close up a security attack vectors (bug 481556).

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214
• http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556

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Updated on 2015-03-25