CVE-2011-4617 Information

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/.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071638.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071643.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/5 http://secunia.com/advisories/47240 https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/changeset/8be37c509fe5