Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd, the worst of which might allow execution of arbitrary code as root. wicd 2012-06-21 2012-06-21: 1 401005 411729 local 1.7.2.1 1.7.2.1

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.

Two vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd:

A local attacker could gain privileges of the root user or obtain sensitive information.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.1"
CVE-2012-0813 CVE-2012-2095 underling ackle