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authorÉric Araujo <aeric@mtlpy.org>2012-12-08 19:51:47 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <aeric@mtlpy.org>2012-12-08 19:51:47 (GMT)
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Create ~/.pypirc securely (#13512).
There was a window between the write and the chmod where the user’s password would be exposed, depending on default permissions. Philip Jenvey’s patch fixes it.
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@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Drew Jenkins
Flemming Kjær Jensen
Philip H. Jensen
+Philip Jenvey
MunSic Jeong
Chris Jerdonek
Pedro Diaz Jimenez
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ Library
- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
+- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
+ Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
+
- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.