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Gentoo GLSA 200506-05 Normal Severity: SilverCity Insecure Permissions

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-05 highlights a vulnerability in SilverCity related to file permissions, allowing unprivileged code execution.
Executable files with insecure permissions can be modified causing an unsuspecting user to run arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: SilverCity: Insecure file permissions Date: June 08, 2005 Bugs: #93558 ID: 200506-05

Synopsis ======= Executable files with insecure permissions can be modified causing an unsuspecting user to run arbitrary code.
Background ========= SilverCity provides lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup languages.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/silvercity < 0.9.5-r1 >= 0.9.5-r1
========== The SilverCity package installs three executable files with insecure permissions.
Impact ===== A local attacker could modify the executable files,...

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