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TITLE:
Gentoo lsat Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24526

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24526/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged a vulnerability in lsat, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the temporary files being created
insecurely in the "/tmp" directory and can be exploited to overwrite
arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends unmerging "app-admin/lsat".

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-20.xml

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