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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-34 Moderate: Filezilla RCE Security Flaw Announced

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2009
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Gentoo Linux Advisory GLSA 202203-11 highlights a vulnerability in OpenSSH that poses a medium severity risk; updates recommended.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing for symlink attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage Date: September 09, 2009 Bugs: #247540 ID: 200909-07

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing for symlink attacks.
Background ========= TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/tkman < 2.2-r1 >= 2.2-r1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the "/tmp/tkman#####" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks...

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