From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Dec 29 2005 - 06:47:05 CST

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for scponly

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18236

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18236/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for scponly. This fixes two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges, or by malicious users to bypass certain
security restrictions.

For more information:
SA18223

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-misc/scponly-4.2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-17.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA18223:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18223/

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