Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201412-8 - This GLSA contains notification of vulnerabilities found in several Gentoo packages which have been fixed prior to January 1, 2011. The worst of these vulnerabilities could lead to local privilege escalation and remote code execution.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-098 - The name attribute of the file element of metalink files is not properly sanitized before being used to download files. If a user is tricked into downloading from a specially crafted metalink file, this can be exploited to download files to directories outside of the intended download directory via directory traversal attacks. Packages for 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program. The corrected packages solves these problems.
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Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in KDE, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to KGet not properly sanitising the "name" attribute of the "file" element of metalink files before using it to download files. If a user is tricked into downloading from a specially crafted metalink file, this can be exploited to download files to directories outside of the intended download directory via directory traversal attacks. KDE version 4.4.2 is affected.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 938-1 - It was discovered that KGet did not properly perform input validation when processing metalink files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted metalink file, a remote attacker could overwrite files via directory traversal, which could eventually lead to arbitrary code execution.
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