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TITLE:
Gentoo update for mgetty

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33051

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33051/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for mgetty. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to mgetty using temporary files in
an insecure manner. This can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary
files via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.36-r2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200812-08:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-08.xml

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