Gentoo GLSA-200504-20 Normal: openMosixview Symlink Attack Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: openMosixview: Insecure temporary file creation Date: April 21, 2005 Bugs: #86686 ID: 200504-20

Synopsis ======= openMosixview and the openMosixcollector daemon are vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= The openMosixview package contains several tools used to manage openMosix clusters, including openMosixview (the main monitoring and administration application) and openMosixcollector (a daemon collecting cluster and node information).
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