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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-security AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Security] security update for security/nessus-...
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:30:52 -0700

I've updated the test version of nessus to stable because it fixes a
nessus-adduser script privilege escalation vulnerability if TMPDIR is
not set.

Not that anybody runs nesses from a machine with many malicious users on
it...

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