-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-005 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : groff SUMMARY : buffer overflow DATE : 2002-10-19 19:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- The groff preprocessor contains an exploitable buffer overflow. If groff can be invoked within the LPRng printing system, an attacker can gain rights as the "lp" user. Remote exploitation may be possible if lpd is running and is accessible remotely, and the attacker knows the name of the printer and spoolfile. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/groff-1.17.2-r2 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge groff emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9sbgvfT7nyhUpoZMRAu3QAJkBRAmp4Dyz9TPJl2ADXkXZaq36VwCfdTbG KxmxU5E0w0og6TWQgPiZx7M= =mU/h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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