From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 03:29:20 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for spe

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17241

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17241/

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 SPE. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA17224

SOLUTION:
Update to "dev-util/spe-0.7.5c-r1" or later, or
"dev-util/spe-0.5.1f-r1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-13.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17224:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17224/

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