Gentoo: GLSA-200412-18 Critical: abcm2ps Buffer Overflow Risk
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December 19, 2004
abcm2ps is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-18:02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: abcm2ps: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Date: December 19, 2004
Updated: December 19, 2004
Bugs: #74702
ID: 200412-18:02
Synopsis
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abcm2ps is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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abcm2ps is a utility used to convert ABC music sheet files into
PostScript format.
Affected packages
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1 media-sound/abcm2ps < 3.7.21 >= 3.7.21
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Limin Wang has located a buffer overflow inside the put_words()
function in the abcm2ps code.
Impact
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A remote attacker co...
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