Re: [Python-Dev] issue 4336

2008-11-20 Thread Terry Reedy
Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: Hello there. I recently created this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue4336 3 days ago. I‘ve had no response so far. Possible reasons: no automatic assignee; core developers focused on getting 2.5.3, 2.6.1, and 3.0.0 out in the next few weeks; some people

Re: [Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Gisle Aas
Perl had a few CVE because of its rmtree implementation. Removing trees is risky business if root runs the function while other users have access to manipulate the tree. Python's shutils.rmtree seems to have many of the same issues. For instance http://bugs.debian.org/286922 shows how to ge

[Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Mart Somermaa
Hello! Does someone systematically track the CVE vulnerability list? Ideally, Python security officers would have close collaboration with whoever manages CVE (like distribution security officers do), so that * every CVE issue would have a corresponding ticket on Python bug tracker (perhaps