Gentoo: GLSA-200812-08 Normal: Mgetty Symlink Attack Exploit
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December 6, 2008
Mgetty uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for symlink attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-08
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Mgetty: Insecure temporary file usage
Date: December 06, 2008
Bugs: #235806
ID: 200812-08
Synopsis
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Mgetty uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for symlink
attacks.
Background
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Mgetty is a set of fax and voice modem programs.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-dialup/mgetty < 1.1.36-r2 >= 1.1.36-r2
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "spooldir" directory in
fax/faxspool.in is created in an insecure manner.
Impact
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A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite
arbi...
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