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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:08:21 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: dkg@...thhorseman.net
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        736247@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Python-modules-team] Bug#736247: python-xdg: get_runtime_dir(strict=False): insecure use of /tmp

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> as reported by Jakub Wilk in http://bugs.debian.org/736247, there is a
> TOCTOU failure in python's xdg module
> 
> 1) Create symlink /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim, pointing to a 
> directory owned by the victim

Use CVE-2014-1624.

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