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TITLE:
Gentoo update for xfs

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27240

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27240/

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 xfs. This fixes some vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges or gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA27040

This also fixes a vulnerability, which is caused due to a race
condition within the handling of temporary files when the xfs font
server startup script is executed. This can be exploited to change
the permissions of arbitrary files.

SOLUTION:
Update to:
"11-apps/xfs-1.0.5" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-11.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27040:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27040/

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