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Message-ID: <20120327161917.GL1398@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:19:17 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: distutils creates ~/.pypirc
insecurely
* [2012-03-27 09:59:46 -0600] Kurt Seifried wrote:
>On 03/27/2012 08:15 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
>> Standard flaw where a file that contains a username and password is
>> written with insecure permissions. This only affects python 2.6 and
>> higher.
>>
>> Could a CVE name be assigned to this flaw? I don't think one has been
>> already.
>>
>> References:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650555
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758905
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue13512
>> http://bugs.python.org/file23824/pypirc-secure.diff
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>Please use CVE-2012-1587 for this issue.
Sorry, I probably should have been more explicit on when it was reported
(this is an older flaw). It was reported (and public) in 2011.
--
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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