Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python (MDVSA-2011:096)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 54611
Synopsis
The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed in python :
The is_cgi method in CGIHTTPServer.py in the CGIHTTPServer module in Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0 allows remote attackers to read script source code via an HTTP GET request that lacks a / (slash) character at the beginning of the URI (CVE-2011-1015).
A flaw was found in the Python urllib and urllib2 libraries where they would not differentiate between different target URLs when handling automatic redirects. This caused Python applications using these modules to follow any new URL that they understood, including the file:// URL type. This could allow a remote server to force a local Python application to read a local file instead of the remote one, possibly exposing local files that were not meant to be exposed (CVE-2011-1521).
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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Solution
Update the affected packages.