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PYSEC-2014-83

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-83 — logilab-common: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'logilab-common>=0.60.1'

Details

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

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Affected packages

PyPI/logilab-common

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.60.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'logilab-common>=0.60.1'

References

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986[WEB]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/57209[ADVISORY]
http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr52-wg7f-8875[ADVISORY]