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Gentoo: GLSA-200411-31 Normal: ProZilla Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Numerous vulnerabilities in ProZilla's buffer management may enable code execution through an attacker-controlled server on Gentoo platforms.
ProZilla contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a malicious server to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running ProZilla

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-31 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ProZilla: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 23, 2004 Bugs: #70090 ID: 200411-31

Synopsis ======= ProZilla contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a malicious server to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running ProZilla.
Background ========= ProZilla is a download accelerator for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/prozilla <= 1.3.6-r2 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users shoul...

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