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[SA15308] Gentoo update for gzip

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 10:22:30 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for gzip

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15308

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15308/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for gzip. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to extract
files to arbitrary directories on a user's system.

For more information:
SA15047

This also fixes a race condition when setting file permissions and an
input validation error in the zgrep utility.

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r6" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-05.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15047:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15047/

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