-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-7 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : wget SUMMARY : directory traversal DATE : 2002-12-20 17:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from advisory "A malicious server could potentially overwrite key files to cause a denial of service or, in some cases, gain privileges by modifying executable files. The risk is mitigated because non-default configurations are primarily affected, and the user must be convinced to access the malicious server. However, web-based clients may be more easily exploited." Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103962838628940&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-misc/wget-1.8.2-r1 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge wget emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+A1BVfT7nyhUpoZMRAitfAJ0ZuwvlTRZnBP9rzfRPE51L7Qm3MwCfUXLn 4QPk2v8r54aB+53CPAwIFhk= =RLsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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