Article Source Debian Security Advisories
December 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
December 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwriting arbitrary files.
The oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch13.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7lenny3.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.2-1…