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Rootkit Hunter Local Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo Linux has released an advisory (GLSA 200504-25) dealing with this issue. Gentoo advises that all users upgrade their packages by executing the following commands with superuser privileges:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-forensics/rkhunter-1.2.3-r1"

For more information, please see the referenced Gentoo Linux advisory.