FreeBSD has released security patches to address a vulnerability identified in GNU Texinfo. The problem is due to an error in the "textindex.c" file that creates temporary files insecurely, which may be exploited by local attackers to overwrite or create arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1748
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