Advisories » MGASA-2015-0023

Updated python-pip packages fix CVE-2014-8991

Publication date: 14 Jan 2015
Modification date: 14 Jan 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-8991

Description

Updated python-pip packages fix security vulnerability:

pip 1.3 through 1.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(prevention of package installation) by creating a /tmp/pip-build-* file for
another user (CVE-2014-8991).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14969
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147567.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/6
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8991

SRPMS

4/core

• python-pip-1.4.1-4.2.mga4