Gentoo: 200212-8 Critical Advisory on Canna Heap Overflow Remote Exploit

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-8
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DATE    : 2002-12-20 17:12 UTC

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Quotes from advisory:

"hsj" of Shadow Penguin Security discovered a heap overflow
vulnerability in the irw_through function in canna server
version 3.6 and earlier."

"AIDA Shinra of Canna project found lack of validations of requests
in canna version 3.6 and earlier."

Read the full advisory at 


SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-i18n/canna-3.6 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge canna
emerge clean

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