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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200509-21 (hylafax)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Gentoo Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 200509-21.

Insight

Insight

Hylafax is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution

Solution

All Hylafax users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose net-misc/hylafax http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200509-21 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106882 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329384

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