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Fedora 11: 2009-9961 Moderate: Buffer Overflow in Newt Library

fedora
Calendar Grey September 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This release fixes a critical security flaw in the openbox framework for Ubuntu 20.04, reducing the possibility of exploitation.
Fixes a buffer overflow in textbox, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user

interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets,

checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars,

etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the

shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a

/usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the

slang library.

Update Information:

Fixes a buffer overflow in textbox, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora buffer overflow exploit fix newt text mode interface

Change Log

* Thu Sep 24 2009 Miroslav Lichvar - 0.52.10-4 - fix buffer overflow in textbox when reflowing (#523955, CVE-2009-2905)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #523955 - CVE-2009-2905 newt: heap-overflow in textbox when text reflowing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update newt' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: newt
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.52.10
Release: 4.fc11
URL: https://pagure.io/newt
Summary: A library for text mode user interfaces

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora buffer overflow exploit fix newt text mode interface

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