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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200410-10 (gettext)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200410-10.
Insight
Insight
The gettext utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite or change permissions on arbitrary files with the rights of the user running gettext, which could be the root user.
Solution
Solution
All gettext users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-devel/gettext-0.14.1-r1' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200410-10 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66355 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85766