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Gentoo: GLSA 202312-05 Moderate: VLC Media Player Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Kaffeine and gxine are vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits stemming from specially crafted headers sent by nefarious HTTP servers. It's advisable to upgrade.
Kaffeine and gxine both contain a buffer overflow that can be exploited when accessing content from a malicious HTTP server with specially crafted headers

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-14:01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow Date: November 07, 2004 Bugs: #69663, #70055 ID: 200411-14:01

Synopsis ======= Kaffeine and gxine both contain a buffer overflow that can be exploited when accessing content from a malicious HTTP server with specially crafted headers.
Background ========= Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/kaffeine < 0.5_rc1-r1 >= 0.5_rc1-r1 *>= 0.4.3b-r1 2 media-vi...

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