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Gentoo: 200412-17 Normal Advisory - kfax Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2004
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Explore Gentoo GLSA 200412-17 regarding kfax, a buffer overflow issue leading to possible arbitrary code execution.
kfax contains several buffer overflows potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= kfax contains several buffer overflows potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= 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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