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TITLE:
GNU Core Utilities "distcheck" Insecure Temporary Directory Security
Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37645

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37645/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in GNU Core Utilities, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "distcheck" make rule using a
temporary directory in an insecure manner, which can be exploited to
e.g. perform symlink attacks.

The security issue is reported in versions 5.2.1 through to 8.1.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jim Meyering, Red Hat

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ae034822c535fa5

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545439

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