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From: aliz at gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg) Subject: GLSA: exim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-5 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : exim SUMMARY : local root vulnerability DATE : 2002-12-16 16:12 UTC EXPLOIT : local - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "This is a format string bug in daemon.c, line 976: sprintf(CS buff, CS pid_file_path, ""); /* Backward compatibility */ pid_file_path can be changed on the command line. This line is in the function daemon_go(), which only gets executed when the user is an exim-admin-user." Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103903403527788&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/exim-4.05 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge exim emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@...too.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz raker@...too.org - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/gBNfT7nyhUpoZMRAq43AKCfp65F8XNHS5Td8CE1qQiNqvrT9QCeJUTB 6MYY1rust/c7RtKpA78PAv4= =IZpj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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