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Gentoo: GLSA-202110-12 Normal: LibXYZ Code Injection Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2007
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The Gentoo GLSA 202208-09 addresses a critical vulnerability concerning the network manager, which could lead to privilege escalation due to improper permission settings.
A vulnerability has been discovered in NVClock, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: NVClock: Insecure file usage Date: July 24, 2007 Bugs: #184071 ID: 200707-08

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in NVClock, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= NVClock is an utility for changing NVidia graphic chipsets internal frequency.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/nvclock < 0.7-r2 >= 0.7-r2
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered that NVClock makes usage of an insecure temporary file in the /tmp directory.
Impact ===== A local attacker could create a...

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