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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:14:56 +0100
From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Issue with PYTHON_EGG_CACHE

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 02:06:59PM -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 01:23 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2013-12-15 14:47:12 -0500 (-0500), cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> >> This message seems to disclose a vulnerability in an unspecified 
> >> version of OpenStack Swift.
> > [...]
> >> Use CVE-2013-7109 for this report about OpenStack Swift. Again, 
> >> CVE-2013-7109 is not an ID for which setuptools is the affected 
> >> product.
> > 
> > I don't think this was intended as a CVE request. The OpenStack
> > VMT had already determined this was non-exploitable in Swift over
> > the course of https://launchpad.net/bugs/1192966 and explicitly
> > decided not to request a CVE nor issue an advisory.
> > 
> 
> Sorry yeah I should have been more clear, I was trying to show that
> it's a pretty common coding pattern to use /tmp for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE,
> that specific instance was a bad one (it's about the only example
> where it isn't actually a vulnerability =).

Does this mean CVE-2013-7109 should be REJECTed or not?

Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis
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