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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200504-06 (sharutils)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Gentoo Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200504-06.

Insight

Insight

The unshar utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution

Solution

All sharutils users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r11' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200504-06 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87939 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-104-1