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Gentoo alert ggv-20021017 (ggv)

From:  Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To:  bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject:  GLSA: ggv
Date:  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:30:09 +0200

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-003 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : ggv SUMMARY : buffer overflow EXPLOIT : local DATE : 2002-10-17 08:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ggv shares the same buffer overflow problem that gv did. Read the full advisory at http://www.idefense.com/advisory/09.26.02.txt SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-text/ggv-1.99.90 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge ggv emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rnUQfT7nyhUpoZMRAr6jAKCNU3Ko5pluB0bZ3yIlw4paUyrh1ACgqQbf CvBJCihfTpuMWwci2+Rhn78= =mnVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


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