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Gentoo GLSA 200509-21 Normal: Hylafax File Overwrite Risk

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2005
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The Hylafax security bulletin points out risks from insecure temporary file creation, exposing Gentoo environments to local exploit chances for attackers.
Hylafax is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Hylafax: Insecure temporary file creation in xferfaxstats script Date: September 30, 2005 Bugs: #106882 ID: 200509-21

Synopsis ======= Hylafax is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= Hylafax is a client-server fax package for class 1 and 2 fax modems.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/hylafax < 4.2.2 *>= 4.2.0-r3 *>= 4.2.1-r2 ...

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