Py2Play allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via pickled objects, which Py2Play unpickles and executes.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2875
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103524
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326976
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-856
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040824010038/http://home.gna.org/oomadness/fr/slune/index.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050213041706/http://soya.literati.org/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20161225000907/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14864