From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 15:24:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for nx

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31025

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31025/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for nx. This fixes some vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, or
to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA30627

SOLUTION:
nxnode users:
Update to "net-misc/nxnode-3.2.0-r3" or later.

nx users:
Update to "net-misc/nx-3.2.0-r2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-07.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30627:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30627/

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