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Gentoo: 200511-02 Low: RUNPATH Privilege Escalation Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-02 highlights critical RUNPATH vulnerabilities affecting ImageMagick, GDAL, and QDBM, urging users to update their systems promptly
Multiple packages suffer from RUNPATH issues that may allow users in the "portage" group to escalate privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: QDBM, ImageMagick, GDAL: RUNPATH issues Date: November 02, 2005 Bugs: #105717, #105760, #108534 ID: 200511-02

Synopsis ======= Multiple packages suffer from RUNPATH issues that may allow users in the "portage" group to escalate privileges.
Background ========= QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images. GDAL is a geospatial data abstraction library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/qdbm < 1.8.33-r2 >= 1.8.33-r2 2 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.2...

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