On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 15:19 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > I'm not really sure what severity this should be. > > yeah, but filing with rdiculous values in the first place.
I don't agree. This bug certainly has the scope to cause serious
security problems if overlooked, as I explained in the original report.
> please give concrete examples, I don't see the mentioned behaviour.
$ python2.4
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Oct 20 2006, 00:23:25)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061015 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16.1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import SoftwareProperties
>>> SoftwareProperties
<module 'SoftwareProperties' from
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/__init__.pyc'>
>>>
$ ls /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/__init__.py
ls: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/__init__.py: No
such file or directory
$ ls /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/__init__.py[co]
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/__init__.pyc
$ apt-file search SoftwareProperties/__init__.py
update-manager:
usr/share/python-support/update-manager/SoftwareProperties/__init__.py
$ dpkg -l update-manager
pn update-manager <none> (no description available)
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