Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for texinfo. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for texinfo
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17070
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17070/
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 texinfo. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA16816
SOLUTION:
Update to "sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r1" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-04.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16816:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16816/
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