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Gentoo: GLSA-200411-37 Critical: Open DC Hub Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2004
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The Ubuntu advisory USN-2021-45 alerts users about a significant security flaw in the Sudo utility that could allow unauthorized privilege escalation.
Open DC Hub contains a buffer overflow that can be exploited to allow remote code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-37 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Open DC Hub: Remote code execution Date: November 28, 2004 Bugs: #72371 ID: 200411-37

Synopsis ======= Open DC Hub contains a buffer overflow that can be exploited to allow remote code execution.
Background ========= Open DC Hub is the hub software for the Direct Connect file sharing network.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-p2p/opendchub < 0.7.14-r2 >= 0.7.14-r2
========== Donato Ferrante discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the RedirectAll command of the Open DC Hub.
Impact ===== Upon exploitation, a remote user with administrative...

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