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VPR Score: 5.5
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200512-16 (OpenMotif, AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries: Buffer overflows in libUil library)
xfocus discovered two potential buffer overflows in the libUil library, in the diag_issue_diagnostic and open_source_file functions.
Impact :
Remotely-accessible or SUID applications making use of the affected functions might be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All OpenMotif users should upgrade to an unaffected version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --unmerge --verbose x11-libs/openmotif # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose x11-libs/openmotif All AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs