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TITLE:
Gentoo update for thttpd

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24018

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
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DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged a security issue in the www-servers/thttpd
package, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
potentially sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to an error within the start-stop
daemon in combination with new Gentoo baselayouts (version 1.12.6),
which causes the thttpd to start with the document root being set to
the system root "/".

SOLUTION:
Update to "www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r5" or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Laurence Withers

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-27.xml

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