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Esearch eupdatedb Symbolic Link Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200407-01 along with an upgrade dealing with this issue. Gentoo has advised the following actions be taken to apply the upgrade:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=app-portage/esearch-0.6.2"
# emerge ">=app-portage/esearch-0.6.2"

Please see the referenced advisory for more information.