From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 04:00:34 CST

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for kdebase

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10259

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10259/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Brute force, Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updated packages for kdebase. These fix two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to
escalate their privileges or by malicious people to brute force the
session cookie.

For more information:
SA9753

SOLUTION:
Update Gentoo:

emerge --sync
emerge '>=kde-base/kde-3.1.4'
emerge clean

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA9753:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9753/

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