TITLE:
Mandriva update for groff

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18764

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18764/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandrakelinux 10.1
http://secunia.com/product/4198/

DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for groff. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA12974

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Mandrakelinux 10.1:
2da61d56e608da8cdecd8dcaefa5a608 
10.1/RPMS/groff-1.19-6.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
b224b02a6d026ff2d6800c171731c9eb 
10.1/RPMS/groff-for-man-1.19-6.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
ccd5222ec22c3413544f4b1a27262cf6 
10.1/RPMS/groff-gxditview-1.19-6.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
23814a0830723e7c4ed5fced5995b071 
10.1/RPMS/groff-perl-1.19-6.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
d3b1d5792f5f9eb941b0a0111a5488b8 
10.1/SRPMS/groff-1.19-6.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
f8a2eec5b2d92413a599f63ea9b0c180 
x86_64/10.1/RPMS/groff-1.19-6.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
36d3ac889a34af4274dbf966647390fb 
x86_64/10.1/RPMS/groff-for-man-1.19-6.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
d56f7aa42108ea4ff6375714b125e443 
x86_64/10.1/RPMS/groff-gxditview-1.19-6.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
027479132bfcfc79663f2d4e737f420e 
x86_64/10.1/RPMS/groff-perl-1.19-6.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
d3b1d5792f5f9eb941b0a0111a5488b8 
x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/groff-1.19-6.1.101mdk.src.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:038

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12974:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12974/

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