The scipy.weave component in SciPy before 0.12.1 creates insecure temporary directories.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The scipy.weave component in SciPy before 0.12.1 creates insecure temporary directories. (CVE-2013-4251)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It was discovered that python-scipy did not correctly handle temporary directories, which may allow arbitrary code execution.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

scipy: weave /tmp and current directory issues (CVE-2013-4251)

Update to 0.12.1, fixes CVE-2013-4251: insecure /tmp usage by scipy.weave.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217910	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2013-4251	Nessus	Misc.	high
82174	Debian DLA-26-1 : python-scipy security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
70904	Amazon Linux AMI : scipy (ALAS-2013-242)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
70817	Fedora 20 : scipy-0.12.1-1.fc20 (2013-19101)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
70654	Fedora 18 : scipy-0.12.1-1.fc18 (2013-19271)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
70653	Fedora 19 : scipy-0.12.1-1.fc19 (2013-19236)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

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