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nessus: adduser race condition vulnerability

Package(s):nessus CVE #(s):
Created:August 12, 2004 Updated:August 17, 2004
Description: The nessus security scanner has a temporary file vulnerability that allows a user to perform a privilege escalation attack by way of an adduser race condition.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-11 2004-08-12
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