A vulnerability has been identified in GnuCash, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks. This issue is due to temporary files being created and manipulated insecurely, which could be exploited by local attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running a vulnerable application.
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2007-02-20 : Initial release
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