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Gentoo: GLSA-200411-05 High: libxml2 Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2004
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2022-1234 highlights critical vulnerabilities in libxml2 that could result in remote code execution.
libxml2 contains multiple buffer overflows which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: libxml2: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow Date: November 02, 2004 Bugs: #69154 ID: 200411-05

Synopsis ======= libxml2 contains multiple buffer overflows which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libxml2 is an XML parsing library written in C.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/libxml2 < 2.6.15 >= 2.6.15
========== Multiple buffer overflows have been detected in the nanoftp and nanohttp modules. These modules are responsible for parsing URLs with ftp information, and resolving names via DNS.
Impact =====...

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