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coolkey: temporary file vulnerability

Package(s):coolkey CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4129
Created:November 7, 2007 Updated:November 7, 2007
Description: Steve Grubb discovered a flaw in the way coolkey created a temporary directory. A local attacker could perform a symlink attack and cause arbitrary files to be overwritten. (CVE-2007-4129)
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0631-04 2007-11-07
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