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Red Hat update for ddskk

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SA9486

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Release Date:

2003-08-11

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Red Hat Linux 7.1
Red Hat Linux 7.2
Red Hat Linux 7.3
Red Hat Linux 8.0
Red Hat Linux 9
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium

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Description:
Red Hat has reported a vulnerability in ddskk, 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. This could potentially be exploited via a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and ddskk.

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