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GLSA: mindi (200309-05)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Tue Sep 2 13:25:42 2003

To: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com,
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Message-Id: <20030902103717.3BC609FBB3@noc.internal.fairytale.se>
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2003 12:37:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: aliz@gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg)

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-05
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          PACKAGE : mindi
          SUMMARY : insecure file creations
             DATE : 2003-09-02 10:37 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <mindi-0.86
    FIXED VERSION : >=mindi-0.86
              CVE : CAN-2003-0617

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Mindi creates files in /tmp which could allow local user to overwrite
arbitrary files.

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/mindi upgrade to mindi-0.86 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge mindi
emerge clean

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