Advisories » MGASA-2014-0089

Updated python-numpy packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 21 Feb 2014
Modification date: 21 Feb 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-1858 , CVE-2014-1859

Description

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).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12814
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1858
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1859

SRPMS

4/core

• python-numpy-1.8.0-1.1.mga4

3/core

• python-numpy-1.6.2-2.1.mga3