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Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Race condition in GNU FileUtils
Race condition in various utilities from fileutils GNU package may cause root user to delete the whole filesystem. [NetSecurity via NewsForge]

This is a potentially nasty one. No packaged fixes published yet by commercial gnu/linux providers.

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