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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-15 Normal: KDE kdelibs File Manipulation Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2005
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The KDE dcopidlng script on Gentoo has been identified as susceptible to symlink vulnerabilities; here's how to address the issue.
The dcopidlng script is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation Date: March 07, 2005 Bugs: #81652 ID: 200503-14

Synopsis ======= The dcopidlng script is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. dcopidlng is a DCOP helper script.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-bas...

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