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Gentoo: GLSA 200712-11 Normal: Portage Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2007
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Gentoo's Portage could potentially reveal confidential data during configuration enhancements. It is crucial to update immediately to resolve this security vulnerability.
Portage may disclose sensitive information when updating configuration files.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-11
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Portage: Information disclosure
      Date: December 13, 2007
      Bugs: #193589
        ID: 200712-11


Synopsis
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Portage may disclose sensitive information when updating configuration
files.

Background
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Portage is the default Gentoo package management system.

Affected packages
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