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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-07 Moderate: OpenSSL Issue in Certificate Validation

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2005
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Serious security flaws identified in LessTif's libXpm could lead to remote code execution risks. Gentoo users are urged to perform updates.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm Date: February 06, 2005 Bugs: #78483 ID: 200502-06

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
Background ========= LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/lesstif < 0.94.0 >= 0.94.0
========== Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access and ...

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