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Bug#: 27293
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2003-08-25 07:06 0000 
> By manipulating symbolic links, a non-root user could delete files in any
directory.

Reproducible: Always
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------- Comment #1 From Carsten Lohrke 2003-08-25 14:42:50 0000 ------- 
@aliz: add you, because of this pn from pilla

>>Carlo hat folgendes geschrieben::
>>According to http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/releasenotes_ws4.html >>vmware-workstation-4.0.1-5289 is affected, too, so the GLSA is not correct.
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>>Carlo
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>Damn.... maybe you should tell the original poster aliz@gentoo.org
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>In the mean time, I'll post a correction there.
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>Thanks,
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>pilla

------- Comment #2 From Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-08-28 16:07:54 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 24006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #3 From Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2003-08-30 07:46:40 0000 ------- 
I just committed this new version of vmware to portage... you can release a
GLSA on it

------- Comment #4 From Carsten Lohrke 2003-08-30 10:53:55 0000 ------- 
Thx, works fine here! (AMD/XP)

------- Comment #5 From Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-09-01 06:37:06 0000 ------- 
I've sent out a correction GLSA for this.
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