Symlink Race Attacks

github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs is vulnerable to symlink race attacks. It is possible because it adopts chown instead of Lchown in creating and setting the ownership of file system and directory...

[SECURITY] New version of dump released.

The version of dump that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 suffers from a problem with restoring symbolic links. This has been fixed in version 0.4b9-0slink1. We recommend you upgrade your dump package immediately. This version "Uses lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security...