Gentoo: 200412-17 Normal Advisory - kfax Buffer Overflow Risk
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December 19, 2004
kfax contains several buffer overflows potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-17
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library
Date: December 19, 2004
Bugs: #73795
ID: 200412-17
Synopsis
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kfax contains several buffer overflows potentially leading to execution
of arbitrary code.
Background
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KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
Unix-like Operating Systems. kfax (part of kdegraphics) is the KDE fax
file viewer.
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