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Gentoo update for gnupg
Secunia Advisory: SA9328
Release Date: 2003-07-23
Popularity: 6,920 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for gnupg to fix a vulnerability allowing local users to overwrite certain files.

The problem is that gnupg is installed setgid root allowing malicious users to overwrite files which are writable by group root.

Change Page:
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