Gentoo: GLSA-200404-04 Normal: Sysstat Code Execution Risk
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April 7, 2004
Multiple vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-04
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in sysstat
Date: April 06, 2004
Bugs: #45159
ID: 200404-04
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks may allow
an attacker to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files
Background
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sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring
utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools
Affected packages
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app-admin/sysstat < 5.0.2 >= 5.0.2
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There are two vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks:
1. The is...
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