USN-4-1: Standard C library script vulnerabilities

First published: Thu Oct 28 2004(Updated: )

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the libc6 package. The utilities "catchsegv" and "glibcbug" created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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