From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 16:16:19 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for automake

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11321

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11321/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for automake. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious local users to escalate their
privileges.

For more information:
SA11061

SOLUTION:
Update Gentoo:

emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=sys-devel/automake-1.8.3"
emerge ">=sys-devel/automake-1.8.3"

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.announce/313

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA11061:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11061/

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