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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201206-17">
+  <title>virtualenv: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+  <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in virtualenv,
+    possibly allowing symlink attacks.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">virtualenv</product>
+  <announced>June 22, 2012</announced>
+  <revised>June 22, 2012: 1</revised>
+  <bug>395285</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="dev-python/virtualenv" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">1.5.1</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>virtualenv is a virtual Python environment builder.</p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>The virtualenv.py script in virtualenv does not handle temporary files
+      securely.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
+      files with the privileges of the user running the application.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>All virtualenv users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+    
+    <code>
+      # emerge --sync
+      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/virtualenv-1.5.1"
+    </code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4617">CVE-2011-4617</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata timestamp="Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:31:00 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:31:54 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>