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Gentoo: 200301-7 Severe: LCDproc Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2003
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Gentoo's latest security bulletin highlights a critical vulnerability in LCDproc that could allow remote code execution, posing serious risks of unauthorized access
The vulnerabilities in LCDproc allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code or cause the LCDproc server to crash.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-7
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DATE    : 2003-01-07 21:01 UTC

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From advisory:

"The vulnerabilities in LCDproc allow an attacker to remotely execute
arbitrary code or cause the LCDproc server to crash."

Read the full advisory at 


SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-misc/lcdproc-0.4.1-r1 or earlier update their systems as
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge lcdproc
emerge clean

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

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PACKAGE : lcdproc
SUMMARY : remote code execution
EXPLOIT : remote

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