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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-15 Normal: libpng Integer Overflow Issue

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Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in mpg123 which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-27 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities Date: October 27, 2004 Bugs: #68343 ID: 200410-27

Synopsis ======= Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in mpg123 which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/mpg123 < 0.59s-r5 >= 0.59s-r5
========== Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the getauthfromURL() and http_open() functions have been reported by Carlos Barros. Additionally, the Gentoo Linux Sound Team fixed additional boundary checks whi...

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