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Gentoo 200410-19 Normal: glibc Symlink Risk in catchsegv Script

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The catchsegv script in the glibc package is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running the s...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script Date: October 21, 2004 Bugs: #66358 ID: 200410-19

Synopsis ======= The catchsegv script in the glibc package is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running the script.
Background ========= glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package ...

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