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TITLE:
Gentoo ltsp Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30161

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30161/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS, System
access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged some vulnerabilities within the ltsp package,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose
potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service),
and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS
or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the inclusion of vulnerable
precompiled binaries of e.g. the Linux kernel, X.org X11 server,
libpng, Freetype, and OpenSSL.

For more information:
SA25096
SA25131
SA25461
SA25463
SA27179
SA27097
SA27434
SA27529
SA28273

SOLUTION:
The vendor has masked the package "net-misc/ltsp" and recommends to
unmerge it.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA25096:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25096/

SA25131:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25131/

SA25461:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25461/

SA25463:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25463/

SA27179:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27179/

SA27097:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27097/

SA27434:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27434/

SA27529.
http://secunia.com/advisories/27529/

SA28273:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28273/

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