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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability were discovered and corrected in coreutils: The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp (CVE-2009-4135). Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

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pathchk

PATHCHK(1)							   User Commands							PATHCHK(1)

NAME

       pathchk - check whether file names are valid or portable

SYNOPSIS

       pathchk [OPTION]... NAME...

DESCRIPTION

       Diagnose invalid or unportable file names.

       -p     check for most POSIX systems

       -P     check for empty names and leading "-"

       --portability
	      check for all POSIX systems (equivalent to -p -P)

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report pathchk bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report pathchk translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for  pathchk  is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and pathchk programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info coreutils 'pathchk invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							PATHCHK(1)

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