GNU gv before 3.7.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-08 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      Insight       Perl Tk Module       Source-Navigator       Tk       Partimage       Mlmmj       acl       Xinit       gzip       ncompress       liblzw       splashutils       GNU M4       KDE Display Manager       GTK+       KGet       dvipng       Beanstalk       Policy Mount       pam_krb5       GNU gv       LFTP       Uzbl       Slim       Bitdefender Console       iputils       DVBStreamer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in gv :

GNU gv before 3.7.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file (CVE-2010-2056).

This update provides gv 3.7.1, which is not vulnerable to this issue.

- Update to 3.7.1 to fix CVE-2010-2055 and CVE-2010-2056 -     Disable international support to avoid segfault on exit

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79961	GLSA-201412-08 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
48422	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gv (MDVSA-2010:159)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	low
47686	Fedora 12 : gv-3.7.1-1.fc12 (2010-10660)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
47685	Fedora 13 : gv-3.7.1-1.fc13 (2010-10642)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2010-2056

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