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jailer: denial of service via symlink

Package(s):jailer CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5139
Created:December 1, 2008 Updated:December 3, 2008
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that updatejail, a component of the chroot maintenance tool Jailer, creates a predictable temporary file name, which may lead to local denial of service through a symlink attack.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1674-1 2008-11-30
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