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TITLE:
Gentoo update for vixie-cron

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20616

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20616/

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 vixie-cron. This fixes a security
issue, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users
to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA20380

SOLUTION:
Update to version "sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20380:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20380/

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