Re: Fwd: [Python-modules-team] Bug#736247: python-xdg: get_runtime_dir(strict=False): insecure use of /tmp

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> as reported by Jakub Wilk in http://bugs.debian.org/736247, there is a
> TOCTOU failure in python's xdg module
>
> 1) Create symlink /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim, pointing to a 
> directory owned by the victim

Use CVE-2014-1624.

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