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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-PYTHONVIRTUALENV-649846
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed31 Dec 2011

Introduced: 31 Dec 2011

CVE-2011-4617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-virtualenv package and not the python-virtualenv package as distributed by Ubuntu.

virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.