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Gentoo: GLSA-200808-11 Normal: UUDeview Symlink Attack Risk

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
An unauthorized user could leverage the insecure management of temporary files in UUDeview. It is recommended to update to prevent symlink vulnerabilities. Severity: Moderate.
A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct symlink attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation Date: August 11, 2008 Bugs: #222275, #224193 ID: 200808-11

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct symlink attacks.
Background ========= UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats. NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------...

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