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Gentoo: GLSA-202401-01 Critical: Nginx Integer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2004
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A vulnerability in Cherokee's format string handling could result in Denial of Service or allow arbitrary code execution. Users are advised to apply the latest updates.
Cherokee contains a format string vulnerability that could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Cherokee: Format string vulnerability Date: November 01, 2004 Bugs: #67667 ID: 200411-02

Synopsis ======= Cherokee contains a format string vulnerability that could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitary code.
Background ========= Cherokee is an extra-light web server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/cherokee <= 0.4.17 >= 0.4.17.1
========== Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokee_logger_ncsa_write_string() function.
Impact ===== Using a speciall...

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