Gentoo: 200301-9 Critical: fnord Buffer Overrun Exploit Threat
gentoo
January 17, 2003
fnord 1.6 contained a buffer overrun in the CGI code
Summary
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From http://www.fefe.de/fnord/ :
"fnord 1.6 contained a buffer overrun in the CGI code. However, since the function does not return, this does not appear to be exploitable."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-www/fnord upgrade to fnord-1.7 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u fnord emerge clean
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PACKAGE : fnord
SUMMARY : buffer overrun
EXPLOIT : remote
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