Gentoo alert 200306-05 (gzip)

From:
    	     
 
Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  gzip (200306-05)
Date:
    	     
 
Sat, 14 Jun 2003 18:40:40 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-05
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          PACKAGE : gzip
          SUMMARY : insecure temporary files
             DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <gzip-1.3.3-r2
    FIXED VERSION : >=gzip-1.3.3-r2
              CVE : CVE-1999-1332 CAN-2003-0367

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znew and gzexe in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite 
arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/gzip upgrade to gzip-1.3.3-r2 as follows

emerge sync
emerge gzip
emerge clean

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