From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Sat Apr 10 2004 - 04:14:42 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for pwlib

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11336

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11336/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for pwlib. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA10869

SOLUTION:
Update Gentoo:

# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=dev-libs/pwlib-1.5.2-r3"
# emerge ">=dev-libs/pwlib-1.5.2-r3"

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-11.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA10869:
http://secunia.com/advisories/10869/

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