Gentoo: 200303-9 Moderate: Netscape Flash Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-9
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>From advisory:
"The cumulative security patch is available today and addresses the
potential for exploits surrounding buffer overflows (read/write) and
sandbox integrity within the player, which might allow malicious usersto gain access to a user's computer. The possibility of running native
code on a users machine is a theoretical exploit, and extremely
difficult to execute in practice. There are no known examples of
running such native code from Macromedia Flash movies; however, even
though this issue is difficult and theoretical in nature only, we
are encouraging users to upgrade."

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SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/netscape-flash upgrade to netsca...
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