Gentoo: 200310-5 Urgent: Image Processing Memory Leak Buffer Overflow

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-8
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>From advisory:
"The file(1) command contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that can
be leveraged by an attacker to execute arbitrary code under the
privileges of another user."

Read the full advisory at: 
/us-en

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/file upgrade to file-3.41 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge file
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at   
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3.41