Bug 395285 (CVE-2011-4617)

Summary:	<dev-python/virtualenv-1.5.1 incorrect temp dir usage (CVE-2011-4617)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	python
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2011-12-19 17:47:32 UTC

From oss-security mailing list at $URL:

Description:
An insecure /tmp file handling was found in python-virtualenv

Solution:
There is a patch at upstream bug[1].


[1]: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/changeset/8be37c509fe5

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2011-12-19 21:53:59 UTC

The fix was released in virtualenv 1.5 on 2010-09-14.
Vulnerable versions were deleted from gentoo-x86 over 11 months ago.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2011-12-19 22:08:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> The fix was released in virtualenv 1.5 on 2010-09-14.
> Vulnerable versions were deleted from gentoo-x86 over 11 months ago.

Sorry, my mistake.

Comment 3 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-19 23:06:14 UTC

GLSA Vote: yes.

Comment 4 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-17 08:34:29 UTC

I'm thinking this could be closed...

Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2012-02-21 01:24:09 UTC

CVE-2011-4617 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4617):
  virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite
  arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.

Comment 6 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-06 21:30:03 UTC

Vote: yes.

Created new GLSA request.

Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2012-06-22 16:53:25 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201206-17 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-17.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).