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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-06
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          PACKAGE : man
          SUMMARY : format string exploit
             DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =man-1.5l-r5
              CVE :

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from advisory:
"man v1.5l, and below, contain a format string vulnerability.
the vulnerability occurs when man uses an optional catalog file, supplied
by the NLSPATH/LANG environmental variables."

Read the full advisory at 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105474717920585&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/man upgrade to man-1.5l-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge man
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at  http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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