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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-7
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PACKAGE : lcdproc
SUMMARY : remote code execution
DATE    : 2003-01-07 21:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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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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