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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2013-1629: pip: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2013-1629: pip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/05/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

pip before 1.3 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to a "pip install" operation.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-pip

References

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