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Gentoo Portage/Gentoolkit Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA13108
Release Date: 2004-11-08
Last Update: 2004-12-07
Popularity: 8,607 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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Description:
Gentoo has issued updates for Portage and Gentoolkit. These fix some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to temporary files being created insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running "dispatch-conf" or "qpkg".

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