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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:15:31 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: distutils creates ~/.pypirc insecurely
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.
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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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