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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-17">
<title>virtualenv: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
<synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in virtualenv,
possibly allowing symlink attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">virtualenv</product>
<announced>2012-06-22</announced>
<revised count="1">2012-06-22</revised>
<bug>395285</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-python/virtualenv" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.5.1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.5.1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>virtualenv is a virtual Python environment builder.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>The virtualenv.py script in virtualenv does not handle temporary files
securely.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
files with the privileges of the user running the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All virtualenv users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/virtualenv-1.5.1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4617">CVE-2011-4617</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="2012-03-06T21:31:00Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="2012-06-22T16:31:54Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
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