Gentoo alert 200306-06 (man)

From:
    	     
 
Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To:
    	     
 
gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  man (200306-06)
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Sat, 14 Jun 2003 18:40:50 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-06
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          PACKAGE : man
          SUMMARY : format string exploit
             DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <man-1.5l-r5
    FIXED VERSION : >=man-1.5l-r5
              CVE : 

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from advisory: 
"man v1.5l, and below, contain a format string vulnerability.  
the vulnerability occurs when man uses an optional catalog file, supplied 
by the NLSPATH/LANG environmental variables."

Read the full advisory at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105474717920585&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/man upgrade to man-1.5l-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge man
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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