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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-3219: fish: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-3219: fish: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/28/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
03/01/2018

Description

fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-shells-fish

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