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USN-2008-1: Suds vulnerability

24 October 2013

Suds could be made to overwrite files.

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Releases

Packages

  • suds - Lightweight SOAP client for Python

Details

Ralph Loader discovered that Suds incorrectly handled temporary files. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files.
In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the Yama
link restrictions.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References