Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack A vulnerability in Setuptools could allow remote attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. setuptools 2013-10-10 2013-10-10 479964 remote 0.8-r1 0.8-r1

Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.

Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages.

A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-0.8-r1"

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