Re: Re: Issue with PYTHON_EGG_CACHE

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 12/15/2013 01:23 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2013-12-15 14:47:12 -0500 (-0500), cve-assign () mitre org wrote:
> > This message seems to disclose a vulnerability in an unspecified 
> > version of OpenStack Swift.
> [...]
> > Use CVE-2013-7109 for this report about OpenStack Swift. Again, 
> > CVE-2013-7109 is not an ID for which setuptools is the affected 
> > product.
>
> I don't think this was intended as a CVE request. The OpenStack
> VMT had already determined this was non-exploitable in Swift over
> the course of https://launchpad.net/bugs/1192966 and explicitly
> decided not to request a CVE nor issue an advisory.

Sorry yeah I should have been more clear, I was trying to show that
it's a pretty common coding pattern to use /tmp for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE,
that specific instance was a bad one (it's about the only example
where it isn't actually a vulnerability =).

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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