Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier
CVE-2008-5983 (and related CVE ids) to the following vulnerability:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in
Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty
string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path
separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a
Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory. 

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-5983
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5984
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481551
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5985
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5986
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481550
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5987
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0314
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569214
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0315 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481560
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0316
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481565
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0317
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481570
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0318
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481572