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GSD-2008-4978

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
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radiance 3R9+20080530 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/opt.fmt, (b) /tmp/out#####.fmt, (c) /tmp/tf#####.dat, (d) /tmp/gsf#####, (e) /tmp/sc#####.sh, (f) /tmp/il#####.pic, (g) /tmp/tl#####.pic, (h) /tmp/ds#####.pic, (i) /tmp/tfa#####, and (j) /tmp/sed##### temporary files, related to the (1) optics2rad, (2) pdelta, (3) dayfact, and (4) raddepend scripts.
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