From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2005 - 08:08:56 CST

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for tetex/cstetex/ptex

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13974

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13974/

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 updates for tetex, cstetex and ptex. These fix some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system and by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA13957

SOLUTION:
teTeX:
Update to "app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5" or later.

CSTeX:
Update to "app-text/cstetex-2.0.2-r1" or later.

pTeX:
Update to "app-text/ptex-3.1.4-r2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-31.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA13957:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13957/

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