Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-scipy  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-PYTHONSCIPY-635929
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed4 Nov 2019

Introduced: 4 Nov 2019

CVE-2013-4251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

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

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