A vulnerability has been identified in Debian, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the "policyd-weight" daemon that creates socket files in an insecure manner, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and delete or overwrite arbitrary files on an affected system.
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2008-03-28 : Initial release
2008-03-31 : Updated Solution
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