Patch from upstream, not yet available in latest stable release--

http://www.logilab.org/revision/210454

--to fix CVE-2014-1839.

diff -rupN logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/ChangeLog logilab-common-0.58.2/ChangeLog

--- logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/ChangeLog	2014-03-14 10:39:51.021176000 -0700

+++ logilab-common-0.58.2/ChangeLog	2014-03-14 10:43:43.925212000 -0700

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ ChangeLog for logilab.common

 2014-02-03

    * pdf_ext: removed, it had no known users (CVE-2014-1838)

+   * shellutils: fix tempfile issue in Execute, and deprecate it

+     (CVE-2014-1839)

+

 2012-07-30  --  0.58.2

     * modutils: fixes (closes #100757 and #100935)

diff -rupN logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/shellutils.py logilab-common-0.58.2/shellutils.py

--- logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/shellutils.py	2012-07-30 06:06:59.000000000 -0700

+++ logilab-common-0.58.2/shellutils.py	2014-03-14 10:46:41.707010000 -0700

@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ import fnmatch

 import errno

 import string

 import random

+import subprocess

 from os.path import exists, isdir, islink, basename, join

 from logilab.common import STD_BLACKLIST, _handle_blacklist

 from logilab.common.compat import raw_input

 from logilab.common.compat import str_to_bytes

+from logilab.common.deprecation import deprecated

 try:

     from logilab.common.proc import ProcInfo, NoSuchProcess

@@ -224,20 +226,17 @@ def unzip(archive, destdir):

             outfile.write(zfobj.read(name))

             outfile.close()

+@deprecated('Use subprocess.Popen instead')

 class Execute:

     """This is a deadlock safe version of popen2 (no stdin), that returns

     an object with errorlevel, out and err.

     """

     def __init__(self, command):

-        outfile = tempfile.mktemp()

-        errfile = tempfile.mktemp()

-        self.status = os.system("( %s ) >%s 2>%s" %

-                                (command, outfile, errfile)) >> 8

-        self.out = open(outfile, "r").read()

-        self.err = open(errfile, "r").read()

-        os.remove(outfile)

-        os.remove(errfile)

+        cmd = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

+        self.out, self.err = cmd.communicate()

+        self.status = os.WEXITSTATUS(cmd.returncode)

+

 def acquire_lock(lock_file, max_try=10, delay=10, max_delay=3600):

     """Acquire a lock represented by a file on the file system