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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-01-08 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:05
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
(1) core/tests/test_memmap.py, (2) core/tests/test_multiarray.py, (3) f2py/f2py2e.py, and (4) lib/tests/test_io.py in NumPy before 1.8.1 allow local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128781.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/3Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65440Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062009Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91317Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rstPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/0bb46c1448b0d3f5453d5182a17ea7ac5854ee15Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128781.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/3Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65440Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062009Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91317Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rstPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/0bb46c1448b0d3f5453d5182a17ea7ac5854ee15Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
numpy numpy *
numpy numpy 1.8.1
fedoraproject fedora 19
fedoraproject fedora 20
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
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