Security Advisory SA49354 - SUSE update for python

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Secunia Advisory SA49354

SUSE update for python

Secunia Advisory

SA49354

Release Date

2012-06-01

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information
DoS

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

openSUSE 11.4

openSUSE 12.1

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2011-3389 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-4944 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-0845 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-1150 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

SUSE has issued an update for python. This fixes a weakness and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially disclose sensitive Information and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA47810
SA48347

1) Due to a race condition error within distutils the file ~/.pypirc is created in an insecure way before changing access permissions. This can be exploited to potentially disclose access credentials.

Solution
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Jaku Wilk within a Debian bug report.

Original Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2012:0667-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00048.html

Debian Bug#650555:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650555

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