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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes NX Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes NX Code Execution Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2073
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1377 - CVE-2008-1379 - CVE-2008-2360 - CVE-2008-2361 - CVE-2008-2362
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-11

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in NX. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1803

Affected Products

net-misc/nxnode versions prior to 3.2.0-r3
net-misc/nx versions prior to 3.2.0-r2

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-misc/nxnode-3.2.0-r3"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-misc/nx-3.2.0-r2"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2073
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-07.xml

ChangeLog

2008-07-11 : Initial release

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