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Gentoo: High Severity GLSA-200404-11 - Remote Access and Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2004
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Numerous security flaws in pwlib present significant dangers such as unauthorized remote entry and stack overflow issues. Promptly updating is recommended.
Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in pwlib that may lead to a remote denial of service or buffer overflow attack.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in pwlib
Date: April 09, 2004 Bugs: #45846 ID: 200404-11

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in pwlib that may lead to a remote denial of service or buffer overflow attack.
Background ========= pwlib is a multi-platform library designed for OpenH323.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- dev-libs/pwlib <= 1.5.2-r2 >= 1.5.2-r3
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the implimentation of protocol H.323 contained in pwlib. Most of the vulnerabilies are in the parsing of ASN.1 elements which would allow an attacker t...

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