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Gentoo: GLSA-200410-11 Minimal Severity: Nginx Path Traversal Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Debian DSA-2004-10 highlights minimal risk symlink vulnerability in libxml2. Update advised for enhanced security.
The gettext utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite or change permissions on arbitrary files with the rights of the user running ge...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: gettext: Insecure temporary file handling Date: October 10, 2004 Bugs: #66355 ID: 200410-10

Synopsis ======= The gettext utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite or change permissions on arbitrary files with the rights of the user running gettext, which could be the root user.
Background ========= gettext is a set of utilities for the GNU Translation Project which provides a set of tools and documentation to help produce multi-lingual messages in programs.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-devel/gettext < 0.12.1-r2 ...

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