TITLE:
Gentoo update for qdbm / imagemagick / gdal

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17427

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17427/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updates for qdbm / imagemagick / gdal. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure paths being introduced
into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at
runtime. This can be exploited by malicious users in the "portage"
group to escalate privileges by creating a malicious shared object in
the Portage temporary build directory that is loaded at runtime by a
dependent executable.

SOLUTION:
Apply updates.

QDBM users:
Update to "dev-db/qdbm-1.8.33-r2" or later.

ImageMagick users:
Update to "media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.4.2-r1" or later.

GDAL users:
Update to "sci-libs/gdal-1.3.0-r1" or later, or
"sci-libs/gdal-1.2.6-r4" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-02.xml

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