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TITLE:
Gentoo update for hugin

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27952

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27952/

CRITICAL:
Not 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 hugin. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA27623

SOLUTION:
Update to "media-gfx/hugin-0.6.1-r1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27623:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27623/

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