Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for gnump3d. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for gnump3d
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17646
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17646/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
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DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for gnump3d. This fixes two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges, and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive
information.
For more information:
SA17647
SOLUTION:
Update to version "media-sound/gnump3d-2.9.7-r1" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-16.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17647:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17647/
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