Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0301 (perltidy)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0301: Updated perltidy packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:19:02 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0301 - Updated perltidy packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 Aug 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0301.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-10374

Description:
perltidy relies on the current working directory for certain output
files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which
allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink
(CVE-2016-10374).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21079
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10374

SRPMS:
- 5/core/perltidy-20170521.0.0-1.mga5