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The vulnerability of the Red Hat Linux operating system allows attackers to compromise the integrity of protected information.
The vulnerability of the diffutils-2.7 package in the Red Hat Linux operating system can lead to a breach of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited locally...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : diffutils (MDKSA-2001:008-1)
WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the sdiff program within the diffutils package. This update corrects the problem. Update : The previous updates had a conflicting man page with the man-pages package which prevented MandrakeUpdate from updating the package. %NASLMINLEV...
Mandriva Update for mkinitrd MDVA-2011:023 (mkinitrd)
Check for the Version of mkinitrd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for mkinitrd MDVA-2011:023 mkinitrd Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...
Mandriva Update for mkinitrd MDVA-2011:023 (mkinitrd)
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...
Important: spamassassin security update
3.1.8-2 - Fix sa-learn regression 228968 3.1.8-1 - 3.1.8 CVE-2007-0451 3.1.7-9 - silence sa-update cron script 3.1.7-8 - only restart spamd if necessary after sa-update 227756 3.1.7-7 - requires gnupg 227738 3.1.7-6 - explicit requires on perlHTTP::Date and perlLWP::UserAgent Bug 193100 3.1.7-5 -...
diffutils sdiff creates temporary files insecurely
Overview diffutils, a set of utilities distributed with many versions of linux, contains a utility called sdiff, which creates temporary files of predictable names in an insecure fashion. Using a symbolic link attack, an intruder can cause overwrite of any file writable by the user executing sdif...
CVE-2001-0117
CVE-2001-0117 concerns diffutils’ sdiff 2.7, where sdiff creates temporary files insecurely, enabling a local user to overwrite files via a symlink attack. The issue affects diffutils in affected distributions (e.g., Red Hat advisories note a temporary-file handling vulnerability in sdiff). Explo...
