A ktsuss security update has been released for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201201-15
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: ktsuss: Privilege escalation
Date: January 27, 2012
Bugs: #381115
ID: 201201-15

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Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities have been found in ktsuss, allowing local attackers
to gain escalated privileges.

Background
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ktsuss is a simple, graphical version of su written in C and GTK+.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 x11-misc/ktsuss