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GSD-2017-8418

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2017-05-01 00:00
Details
RuboCop 0.48.1 and earlier does not use /tmp in safe way, allowing local users to exploit this to tamper with cache files belonging to other users.
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CVE-2017-8418
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