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Gentoo update for mindi
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9654
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Release Date:
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2003-09-02
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Popularity:
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5,964 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2003-0617
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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for mindi. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of temporary files in "/tmp". This can be exploited via a symlink attack to overwrite or create arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running mindi.
Solution:
Update Gentoo:
emerge sync
emerge mindi
emerge clean
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