Gentoo GLSA-202310-02: Moderate Buffer Overflow in Newspost

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: February 03, 2005 Bugs: #78530 ID: 200502-05

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow can be exploited to crash Newspost remotely and potentially execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= Newspost is a Usenet News binary autoposter.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-nntp/newspost < 2.0-r1 >= 2.0-r1
========== Niels Heinen has discovered a buffer overflow in the socket_getline() function of Newspost, which can be triggered by providing long strings that do not end with a newline character.
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