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Gentoo: GLSA-200901-14 Normal: Scilab Insecure File Usage Risk

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2009
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The inadequate management of files in Scilab exposes it to local symlink vulnerabilities. It is crucial to update the software to mitigate potential security threats.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Scilab, allowing for symlink attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage Date: January 21, 2009 Bugs: #245922 ID: 200901-14

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Scilab, allowing for symlink attacks.
Background ========= Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sci-mathematics/scilab < 4.1.2-r1 >= 4.1.2-r1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite a...

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