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Gentoo: GLSA-200812-08 Normal: Mgetty Symlink Attack Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2008
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A vulnerability in the Gentoo Mgetty package related to insecure temporary file handling can lead to symlink attacks, posing serious security risks that require immediate updates
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 ======= Mgetty uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for symlink attacks.
Background ========= Mgetty is a set of fax and voice modem programs.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/mgetty < 1.1.36-r2 >= 1.1.36-r2
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "spooldir" directory in fax/faxspool.in is created in an insecure manner.
Impact ===== A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbi...

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