From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Oct 08 2004 - 07:49:46 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for cyrus-sasl

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12762

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12762/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for cyrus-sasl. This fixes two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA12760

SOLUTION:
Update to "dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-r2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12760:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12760/

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