Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for uim. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for uim
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17058
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17058/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for uim. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA17043
SOLUTION:
Update to "app-i18n/uim-0.4.9.1" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17043:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17043/
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