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TITLE:
Gentoo BitchX Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31180

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31180/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged a security issue and a vulnerability in
bitchx, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to
potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA26578
SA27463

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends to unmerge bitchx and use another IRC client.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-12.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26578:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26578/

SA27463:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27463/

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