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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-08 Important: OpenSSL Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2005
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The OpenMotif package on Gentoo Linux is affected by several security flaws within libXpm, potentially allowing for remote code execution. It is advisable to perform an update.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in OpenMotif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenMotif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm Date: February 07, 2005 Bugs: #78111 ID: 200502-07

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in OpenMotif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
Background ========= OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/openmotif < 2.2.3 >= 2.2.3
========== Multiple vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access or directory traversal...

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