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Gentoo: 200410-08 Critical: Ncompress Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2004
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Gentoo GLSA 202310-01 outlines a stack overflow in bzip2 impacting system daemons. Immediate update advised for safeguarding systems.
compress and uncompress, which could be used by daemon programs, contain a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the daemon proce...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ncompress: Buffer overflow Date: October 09, 2004 Bugs: #66251 ID: 200410-08

Synopsis ======= compress and uncompress, which could be used by daemon programs, contain a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the daemon process.
Background ========= ncompress is a utility handling compression and decompression of Lempel-Ziv archives, compatible with the original *nix compress and uncompress utilities (.Z extensions).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/ncompress <= 4.2.4 >= 4.2.4-r1
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