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Caldera security advisory CSSA-2002-040.0 - The uudecode utility created output files without checking to see if it was about to write to a symlink or a pipe. If a user uses uudecode to extract data into open shared directories, such as /tmp, this vulnerability could be used by a local attacker to overwrite files.

Caldera security advisory CSSA-2002-040.0 - The uudecode utility created output files without checking to see if it was about to write to a symlink or a pipe. If a user uses uudecode to extract data into open shared directories, such as /tmp, this vulnerability could be used by a local attacker to overwrite files.