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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-7
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PACKAGE : lcdproc
SUMMARY : remote code execution
DATE    : 2003-01-07 21:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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From advisory:

"The vulnerabilities in LCDproc allow an attacker to remotely execute
arbitrary code or cause the LCDproc server to crash."

Read the full advisory at 
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/56411

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-misc/lcdproc-0.4.1-r1 or earlier update their systems as
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge lcdproc
emerge clean

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