From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 05:51:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for gzip

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11939

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11939/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for gzip. This fixes two vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their
privileges on a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA8990

NOTE: This is an update to a prior fix, which introduced an error.

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-arch/gzip-1.3.3-r4" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.announce/376

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA8990:
http://secunia.com/advisories/8990/

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