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Calendar Grey October 3, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-01 discusses a vulnerability in gtkdiskfree regarding its handling of temporary files, leading to potential filesystem access
gtkdiskfree is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: gtkdiskfree: Insecure temporary file creation Date: October 03, 2005 Bugs: #104565 ID: 200510-01

Synopsis ======= gtkdiskfree is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= gtkdiskfree is a GTK-based GUI to show free disk space.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/gtkdiskfree < 1.9.3-r1 >= 1.9.3-r1
========== Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree insecurely creates a predictable temporary file to handle command output.
Impact ===== A local attacker could create a symbolic ...

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