vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-12779: libqb: Insecure temporary file

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 7, 2019
Added
Jul 5, 2021
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

libqb before 1.0.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, because it uses predictable filenames (under /dev/shm and /tmp) without O_EXCL.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-cluster-libqb
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