Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for pam. This fixes multiple security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, perform certain actions with escalated privileges, and potentially gain escalated privileges.
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