The vulnerability of the Red Hat Linux operating system allows attackers to compromise the integrity of protected information.

The vulnerability of the fileutils-4.0x-3.1 package of the Red Hat Linux operating system can lead to the compromise of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited locally...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fileutils (MDKSA-2002:031)

Wojciech Purczynski reported a race condition in some utilities in the GNU fileutils package that may cause root to delete the entire filesystem. This only affects version 4.1 stable and 4.1.6 development versions, and the authors have fixed this in the latest development version. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: fileutils security update

Updated fileutils packages are available which fix a race condition in recursive remove and move commands. The fileutils package includes a number of GNU versions of common and popular file management utilities. A race condition in recursive use of rm and mv commands in fileutils 4.1 and earlier...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated fileutils package fixes race condition in recursive operations

New fileutils packages for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 fix a race condition in recursive remove and move commands. Updated 16 April 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Linux on IBM iSeries and pSeries systems. The fileutils package includes a number of GNU versions of common and popular...