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
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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
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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
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-devel/gettext < 0.12.1-r2 ...
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