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GLSA: tetex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Fri Oct 18 18:14:45 2002
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:56:38 +0200
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-Id: <20021018215157.7E00F336ED@mail1.tamperd.net>
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-004
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PACKAGE : tetex
SUMMARY : Command execution vulnerability in dvips
EXPLOIT : local & remote
DATE : 2002-10-18 22:00 UTC
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Olaf Kirch of SuSE has discovered a vulnerability in dvips that
allowed remote users with printing access to execute command as the
lp user by sending carefully crafted printjobs.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r10 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge tetex
emerge clean
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