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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-104-1 April 04, 2005 sharutils vulnerability https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8459 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: sharutils The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:4.2.1-10ubuntu0.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.