From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 04:05:02 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for kdebase / kdelibs

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12284

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12284/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updates for kdelibs and kdebase. These fix two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges, and one vulnerability, which can be
exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

For more information:
SA11978
SA12276

SOLUTION:
Update to "kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r1" and
"kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r1".

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-13.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA11978:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/

SA12276:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12276/

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