Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0330 (python-scipy)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0330: Updated python-scipy packages fix a security vulnerability and missing deps 
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Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:22:32 +0100
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MGASA-2013-0330 - Updated python-scipy packages fix a security vulnerability and missing deps

Publication date: 20 Nov 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0330.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4251

Description:
Updated python-scipy package fixes security vulnerability:

scipy.weave will use /tmp/[username] as persistent storage (cache), but it
does not check whether or not this directory already exists, does not check
whether it is a directory or a symlink, and also does not verify permissions
or ownership, which could allow someone to place code in this directory that
would be executed as the user running scipy.weave (CVE-2013-4251).

The update also adds some missing dependencies.

References:
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11555
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4251

SRPMS:
- 3/core/python-scipy-0.9.0-7.3.mga3
- 2/core/python-scipy-0.9.0-3.4.mga2