Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sharutils (MDKSA-2002:052)

The uudecode utility creates output files without checking to see if it is about to write to a symlink or pipe. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite files or lead to privilege escalation if users decode data into share directories, such as /tmp. This update fixes this...

RHEL 2.1 : sharutils (RHSA-2003:180)

Updated packages for sharutils which fix potential privilege escalation using the uudecode utility are available. The sharutils package contains a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files in binary or text format. The uudecode utility creates an output file without checking to see...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: sharutils security update

Updated packages for sharutils which fix potential privilege escalation using the uudecode utility are available. The sharutils package contains a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files in binary or text format. The uudecode utility creates an output file without checking to see...