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Mandriva update for gzip
Secunia Advisory: SA15424
Release Date: 2005-05-19
Last Update: 2006-01-31
Popularity: 5,997 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Mandrake Corporate Server 2.x
Mandrakelinux 10.0
Mandrakelinux 10.1

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Description:
Mandriva has issued an update for gzip. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to extract files to arbitrary directories on a user's system.

For more information:
SA15047

This also fixes a race condition when setting file permissions and an input validation error in the zgrep utility.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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