Gentoo: 200302-13 Critical Advisory for Apcupsd Remote Root Threat
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February 24, 2003
A remote root vulnerability in slave setups and some buffer overflowsin the network information server code were discovered by the apcupsddevelopers.
Summary
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"A remote root vulnerability in slave setups and some buffer overflows in the network information server code were discovered by the apcupsd developers."
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SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/apcupsd upgrade to apcupsd-3.10.5 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u apcupsd emerge clean
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PACKAGE : apcupsd
SUMMARY : remote root vulnerability and buffer overflows
DATE : 2003-02-24 10:05 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <3.10.5 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.10.5 : fixed version>From Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory MDKSA-2003:018:
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