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Gentoo ltsp Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA30161  
Release Date: 2008-05-12

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x


This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Gentoo has acknowledged some vulnerabilities within the ltsp package, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the inclusion of vulnerable precompiled binaries of e.g. the Linux kernel, X.org X11 server, libpng, Freetype, and OpenSSL.

For more information:
SA25096
SA25131
SA25461
SA25463
SA27179
SA27097
SA27434
SA27529
SA28273

Solution:
The vendor has masked the package "net-misc/ltsp" and recommends to unmerge it.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml

Other References:
SA25096:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25096/

SA25131:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25131/

SA25461:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25461/

SA25463:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25463/

SA27179:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27179/

SA27097:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27097/

SA27434:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27434/

SA27529.
http://secunia.com/advisories/27529/

SA28273:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28273/



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