From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 02:21:27 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for Ghostscript

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9029/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for ghostscript. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
overwrite certain files on a vulnerable system.

For more information:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8595/

SOLUTION:
Update Gentoo:

emerge sync
emerge ghostscript
emerge clean

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