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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200410-07 (ed)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Gentoo Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200410-07.

Insight

Insight

The ed utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite or change rights on arbitrary files with the rights of the user running ed, which could be the root user.

Solution

Solution

All ed users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=sys-apps/ed-0.2-r4' # emerge '>=sys-apps/ed-0.2-r4' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200410-07 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66400

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