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Gentoo: 'mindi' temporary file vulnerability |
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Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
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Mindi creates files in /tmp which could allow local user to overwritearbitrary files.
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-05
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PACKAGE : mindi
SUMMARY : insecure file creations
DATE : 2003-09-02 10:37 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =mindi-0.86
CVE : CAN-2003-0617
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Mindi creates files in /tmp which could allow local user to overwrite
arbitrary files.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/mindi upgrade to mindi-0.86 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge mindi
emerge clean
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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz
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