Re: /tmp symlink problems in SuSE Linux 6.1

From: Marc Heuse (marcat_private)
Date: Sat Jun 05 1999 - 13:02:19 PDT

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Hi,

we confirmed the link vulnerablity in the man package.
The culprit is zsoelim which creates the file without looking left and
right. :-(

All linux distributions using man 2.3.10 should be affected.

A fixed package from us will be available soon.

Greets,
	Marc
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