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"