Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-227 - A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to the default use of the product. The updated python-setuptools packages has been upgraded to the 0.9.8 version and the python-virtualenv packages has been upgraded to the 1.10.1 version which is not vulnerable to this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:227
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : python-setuptools
Date : September 9, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in
python-setuptools/python-virtualenv:
easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages
from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on
package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a crafted response to the default use of the product
(CVE-2013-1633).
The updated python-setuptools packages has been upgraded to the 0.9.8
version and the python-virtualenv packages has been upgraded to the
1.10.1 version which is not vulnerable to this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1633
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
e1cb29da242ab6e8e1159d3944222d8d mes5/i586/python-pkg-resources-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
7ab6f335508a6492632c6fc03a5ecdcc mes5/i586/python-setuptools-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
258487e101cef7b253f735efb0510cbf mes5/i586/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
e666fcfc1c64f270a4e13d023e270a9d mes5/SRPMS/python-setuptools-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
7041c005b2bdb503d949b07c37388cb6 mes5/SRPMS/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-0.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
1c2fd8142ac903fdad66a6f4f2feed0f mes5/x86_64/python-pkg-resources-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
f1e480dd21ff6c5c9fbed415e7a7bdf4 mes5/x86_64/python-setuptools-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
f309ac0531583675a1db38117fc25d53 mes5/x86_64/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-0.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
e666fcfc1c64f270a4e13d023e270a9d mes5/SRPMS/python-setuptools-0.9.8-0.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
7041c005b2bdb503d949b07c37388cb6 mes5/SRPMS/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-0.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
65a932783bd31f9b08c589e8d2759b1a mbs1/x86_64/python-pkg-resources-0.9.8-1.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
db9923d3d8f0a3091a359f241376b96a mbs1/x86_64/python-setuptools-0.9.8-1.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
2c2de1f8c488e47229c9814723e1162a mbs1/x86_64/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
61b5bca18ac1dc48e4af0961f45f3672 mbs1/SRPMS/python-setuptools-0.9.8-1.1.mbs1.src.rpm
03fbed23bdef2a9c667fc8e585a030aa mbs1/SRPMS/python-virtualenv-1.10.1-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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