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Gentoo: GLSA-200412-09 High: ncpfs Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2004
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Gentoo GLSA 200510-03 outlines a critical buffer overflow issue in ncpfs that poses a significant risk to local machines.
ncpfs is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to local execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ncpfs: Buffer overflow in ncplogin and ncpmap Date: December 15, 2004 Bugs: #72820 ID: 200412-09

Synopsis ======= ncpfs is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to local execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Background ========= ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem that allows access to Netware services, for example to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/ncpfs < 2.2.5 >= 2.2.5
========== Karol Wiesek discovered a buffer overflow in the ha...

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