Ubuntu Security Notice 841-1 - Arand Nash discovered that applications linked to GLib (e.g. Nautilus) did not correctly copy symlinks. If a user copied symlinks with GLib, the symlink target files would become world-writable, allowing local attackers to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
b17c57b39322b0668a28dff188e0f833a265e02c9fd772d12a1277c61008ab72Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-245 - The g_file_copy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link (777), which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory. This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
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