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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:27:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...-smtp.mitre.org>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...-smtp.mitre.org>,
        David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Python (urllib, urllib2): Improper management of
 ftp:// and file:// URL schemes


On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:

>  A security flaw was found in the way handlers for ftp:// and
> file:// URL schemes in the Python urllib and urllib2 extensible
> libraries processed the urllib open URL request.
>
>...
>
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue11662
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690560


Use CVE-2011-1521

- Steve

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