APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Solution:
Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users who have installed sys-apps/apcupsd are advised to upgrade to apcupsd-3.10.5 by issuing the following commands:
emerge sync
emerge -u apcupsd
emerge clean
SCO has released Linux advisory CSSA-2003-015.0 to address this issue.
The vendor has addressed this issue in the latest version of apcupsd.
Fixes available:
APC apcupsd 3.8.2
APC apcupsd 3.8.5