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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-03
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PACKAGE : qt-dcgui
SUMMARY : file leaking
DATE    : 2003-02-04 15:03 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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From announcment:

"All versions < 0.2.2 have a major security vulnerability in the
directory parser. This bug allow a remote attacker to download files
outside the sharelist. It's recommend that you upgrade the packages
immediatly."

Read the full announcment at: 
http://dc.ketelhot.de/pipermail/dc/2003-January/000094.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-p2p/qt-dcgui upgrade to qt-dcgui-0.2.4 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u qt-dcgui
emerge clean

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