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Gentoo: GLSA 2023-07-15 Normal: XYZ Library Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2009
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An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in gEDA, allowing for symlink attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation Date: March 07, 2009 Bugs: #247538 ID: 200903-08

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in gEDA, allowing for symlink attacks.
Background ========= gEDA is an Electronic Design Automation tool used for electrical circuit design.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sci-electronics/geda < 1.4.0-r1 >= 1.4.0-r1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the sch2eaglepos.sh script.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arb...

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