-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-012 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : sharutils SUMMARY : inadequate checks on user-specified output files DATE : 2002-10-30 14:10 UTC EXPLOIT : local - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- The uudecode utility would create an output file without checking to see if it was about to write to a symlink or a pipe. If a user uses uudecode to extract data into open shared directories, such as /tmp, this vulnerability could be used by a local attacker to overwrite files or lead to privilege escalation. Read the full advisory at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/336083 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/sharutils-4.2.1-r5 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge sharutils emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9v+gPfT7nyhUpoZMRAvONAKCEtURIf7x9ywYgn5bk3bXGRgtFYwCgulgp pN2sMd4yQUooVdzqeu4OmNY= =DcXc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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