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Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
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znew and gzexe in the gzip package allows local users to overwritearbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-05
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PACKAGE : gzip
SUMMARY : insecure temporary files
DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =gzip-1.3.3-r2
CVE : CVE-1999-1332 CAN-2003-0367
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znew and gzexe in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite
arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/gzip upgrade to gzip-1.3.3-r2 as follows
emerge sync
emerge gzip
emerge clean
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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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