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Gentoo: GLSA 200407-11 Normal: wv Buffer Overflow Risk For Code Execution

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A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the wv library that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200407-11
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: wv: Buffer overflow vulnerability
      Date: July 14, 2004
      Bugs: #56595
        ID: 200407-11


Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the wv library that can allow
an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running the vulnerable application.

Background
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The wv library allows access to MS Word files. It can parse Word files
and allow other applications, such as abiword, to import those files
into their native formats.

Affected packages
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  1  app-text/wv      < 1.0.0-r1      ...
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