Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-077 - f2py insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running f2py.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:077
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : python-numpy
Date : March 27, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:
Updated python-numpy packages fix security vulnerabilities:
f2py insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this
flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file
accessible to the user running f2py (CVE-2014-1858, CVE-2014-1859).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1858
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1859
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0089.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
b263b7e787b22bdcd742b33c8955f364 mbs2/x86_64/python3-numpy-1.8.0-1.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
7157c0c9db9435121b784a6d1d78b6d0 mbs2/x86_64/python3-numpy-devel-1.8.0-1.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
2c8b2227f573844df99543e7bcb46107 mbs2/x86_64/python-numpy-1.8.0-1.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
3162e4fa35bb17378ce3e373a81db035 mbs2/x86_64/python-numpy-devel-1.8.0-1.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
650dd731f7edfcae89fcc8e45ccf4993 mbs2/SRPMS/python-numpy-1.8.0-1.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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