PYSEC-2014-117

Withdrawn 2026-07-09. This finding no longer applies and is kept for reference. It is not used when checking packages.

Details

Withdrawn as duplicate of PYSEC-2014-17. The parser cache functionality in parsergenerator.py in RPLY (aka python-rply) before 0.7.1 allows local users to spoof cache data by pre-creating a temporary rply-*.json file with a predictable name.

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Affected packages

PyPI/rply

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References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735263[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/17/8[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/18/4[WEB]
http://www.osvdb.org/102202[WEB]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90593[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/56429[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/alex/rply/commit/fc9bbcd25b0b4f09bbd6339f710ad24c129d5d7c[FIX]