Gentoo: 200212-13 Moderate - CUPS Flaws Allow Root Access

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-13
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DATE    : 2002-12-29 13:12 UTC

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From iDEFENSE advisory:

"Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote
attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges."

Read the full advisory at 
/us-en

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups-1.1.17_pre20021025 or earlier update their systems as
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge cups
emerge clean

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