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gforge: symlink attack vulnerability

Package(s):gforge CVE #(s):CVE-2009-3304
Created:December 4, 2009 Updated:December 9, 2009
Description: From the Debian alert:

Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwriting arbitrary files.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1945-1 2009-12-03
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