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TITLE:
Gentoo update for shtool/ocaml-mysql

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15668

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15668/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updates for shtool and ocaml-mysql. These fix a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

For more information:
SA15496
SA15666

SOLUTION:
GNU shtool users:
Update to "dev-util/shtool-2.0.1-r2" or later.

ocaml-mysql users:
Update to "dev-ml/ocaml-mysql-1.0.3-r1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15496:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15496/

SA15666:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15666/

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