CVE-2014-2667 Information

Description

Race condition in the _get_masked_mode function in Lib/os.py in Python 3.2 through 3.5 when exist_ok is set to true and multiple threads are used might allow local users to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a separate application vulnerability before the umask has been set to the expected value.

Reference

http://bugs.python.org/issue21082 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00008.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/28/15 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/29/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/4 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-10