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Gentoo: 200501-01 Normal: LinPopUp Buffer Overflow Candidates For Risk

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2005
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The vulnerability in LinPopUp's memory allocation can enable malicious actors to run unauthorized commands. It's essential to update your software to protect your system from this risk.
LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: LinPopUp: Buffer overflow in message reply Date: January 04, 2005 Bugs: #74705 ID: 200501-01

Synopsis ======= LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= LinPopUp is a graphical application that acts as a frontend to Samba client messaging functions, allowing a Linux desktop to communicate with a Microsoft Windows computer that runs Winpopup.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/linpopup < 2.0.4-r1 >= 2.0.4-r1
========== Stephen Dranger discovered that LinPopUp contains a buffer ov...

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