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libtool - Insecure handling of temporary files

Package(s):libtool CVE #(s):
Created:February 5, 2004 Updated:March 8, 2004
Description: GNU libtool consists of a set of shell scripts used to build shared libraries.

Joseph S. Myers and Stefan Nordhausen independently found a vulnerability in the way the ltmain.sh script (which is part of the libtool package) creates temporary directories for its use.

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change/delete arbitrary files in the system on behalf of the user who is calling the script. The vulnerability has been fixed in the 1.5.2 version of libtool.

Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.004 2004-03-08
Conectiva CLA-2004:811 2004-02-05

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