Bug 139361 - CAN-2004-0970 temporary files issues in gzip.
Summary: CAN-2004-0970 temporary files issues in gzip.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gzip
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
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Assignee: Jiri Ryska
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20041019
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-15 16:02 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-12-15 12:28:37 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-11-15 16:02:40 UTC 
Trustix has discovered temporary file bugs in gzexe, zdiff and znew
which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by
creating specially named symlinks.

This issue should also affect FC2.
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