From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 04:39:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for ed

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12780

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12780/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for ed. This fixes an old vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created
insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite or
create arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running ed.

SOLUTION:
Update to "sys-apps/ed-0.2-r4" or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alan Cox

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-07.xml

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