Gentoo GLSA-200501-10 Normal: Vilistextum Buffer Overflow Exploit

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Vilistextum: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: January 06, 2005 Bugs: #74694 ID: 200501-10

Synopsis ======= Vilistextum is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code through the use of a malicious webpage.
Background ========= Vilistextum is an HTML to text converter.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/vilistextum < 2.6.7 >= 2.6.7
========== Ariel Berkman discovered that Vilistextum unsafely reads data into an array without checking the length. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow.
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