Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for xv. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for xv
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14998
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14998/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for xv. This fixes some vulnerabilities,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.
For more information:
SA14977
SOLUTION:
Update to "media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r11" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-17.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14977:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14977/
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