(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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code     execution (CVE-2019-6446)

  - __init__.py in f2py in NumPy before 1.8.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink     attack on a temporary file. (CVE-2014-1858)

  - (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. (CVE-2014-1859)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code     execution (CVE-2019-6446)

  - __init__.py in f2py in NumPy before 1.8.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink     attack on a temporary file. (CVE-2014-1858)

  - (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. (CVE-2014-1859)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Updated python-numpy packages fix security vulnerabilities :

f2py insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running f2py (CVE-2014-1858, CVE-2014-1859).

f2py insecurely uses a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running f2py.

- Fix CVE-2014-1858, CVE-2014-1859: #1062009, #1062359

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199799	RHEL 6 : numpy (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199759	RHEL 7 : numpy (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
82330	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-numpy (MDVSA-2015:077)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
72950	Amazon Linux AMI : numpy (ALAS-2014-302)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
72631	Fedora 19 : numpy-1.7.2-8.fc19 (2014-2387)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
72521	Fedora 20 : numpy-1.8.0-4.fc20 (2014-2289)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2014-1859

medium

Tenable Plugins

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medium