[oss-security] CVE request: distutils creates ~/.pypirc insecurely

Standard flaw where a file that contains a username and password is
written with insecure permissions. This only affects python 2.6 and
higher.

Could a CVE name be assigned to this flaw? I don't think one has been
already.

References:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650555
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758905
http://bugs.python.org/issue13512
http://bugs.python.org/file23824/pypirc-secure.diff

Thanks.

-- Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team

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