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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-02 Moderate: Usermin Remote Exploits and Risks

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Several weaknesses in Usermin may allow for Denial of Service assaults and potential leakage of confidential data on Gentoo platforms.
Usermin contains two security vulnerabilities which could lead to a Denial of Service attack and information disclosure.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200406-15
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: June 18, 2004
      Bugs: #54030
        ID: 200406-15


Synopsis
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Usermin contains two security vulnerabilities which could lead to a
Denial of Service attack and information disclosure.

Background
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Usermin is a web-based administration tool for Unix. It supports a wide
range of user applications including configuring mail forwarding,
setting up SSH or reading mail.

Affected packages
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     Package            /   Vulnerable   /                  Unaffected
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  1  app-admin/usermin      <= 1.070-r1                       >= 1.080

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