Security Advisory SA25550 - Gentoo update for elinks

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Secunia Advisory SA25550

Gentoo update for elinks

Secunia Advisory

SA25550

Release Date

2007-06-07

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Gentoo Linux

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CVE-2007-2027 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for elinks. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA25169

Solution
Update to "www-client/elinks-0.11.2-r1" or later.
Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml

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