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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : exim
SUMMARY : security vulnerability in exim
DATE : Apr 19 03:02:46 UTC 2002
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OVERVIEW
A security vulnerability has been found that might allow a local attacker
to gain elevated priveleges. This affects Gentoo's exim-3.34-r1 and prior
packages.
DETAIL
Fix for a security vulnerability that could allow local attackers to gain
elevated privileges though a buffer overflow exploit.
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5CP0H206AI.html
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running exim update
their systems as follows.
emerge --clean rsync
emerge exim
emerge clean
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