From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 03:07:23 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for netpbm

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12723

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12723/

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 netpbm. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their
privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of temporary
files, which can be exploited via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Update to "media-libs/netpbm-10.0" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-02.xml

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