Gentoo: GLSA-202303-05 Normal: Mitigation for R Directory Traversal Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: R: Insecure temporary file creation Date: September 22, 2008 Bugs: #235822 ID: 200809-13

Synopsis ======= R is vulnerable to symlink attacks due to an insecure usage of temporary files.
Background ========= R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/R < 2.7.1 >= 2.7.1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "javareconf" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner.
Impact ===== A local attacker cou...