ubuntu · CVE-2011-4617

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-4617 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (python-virtualenv), 10 status rows across 10 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, upstream): not-affected 5, ignored 3, DNE 1, released 1.

Description:

virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.