New submission from Jakub Wilk:
The doctest.debug_script function creates temporary files in an insecure way:
srcfilename = tempfile.mktemp(".py", "doctestdebug")
f = open(srcfilename, 'w')
This is already fixed for Python >= 3.2, although for reasons other than
security: issue12451
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 209717
nosy: jwilk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: doctest.debug_script: insecure use of /tmp
type: security
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1
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