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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Elinks Gettext Catalog Local Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Elinks Gettext Catalog Local Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2085
CVE ID : CVE-2007-2027
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-06-07


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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Elinks. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1686

Affected Products

www-client/elinks versions prior to 0.11.2-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/elinks-0.11.2-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2085
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml

ChangeLog

2007-06-07 : Initial release

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