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Gentoo: 200507-22 Low Severity: Sandbox Insecure File Handling

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2005
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Gentoo security announcement GLSA 202110-15 notifies users of a minor vulnerability in the network management daemon, recommending immediate patches.
The sandbox utility may create temporary files in an insecure manner.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: sandbox: Insecure temporary file handling Date: July 25, 2005 Bugs: #96782 ID: 200507-22

Synopsis ======= The sandbox utility may create temporary files in an insecure manner.
Background ========= sandbox is a Gentoo Linux utility used by the Portage package management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/sandbox < 1.2.11 >= 1.2.11
========== The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU (Time of Check, Time of Use) file creation race conditions.
Impact ===== Local us...

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