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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-45 High: vlc Run-time Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2005
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An integer overflow vulnerability has been identified in mlterm, potentially allowing unauthorized code execution. It is essential to update immediately to ensure your system's safety!
mlterm is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: mlterm: Integer overflow vulnerability Date: March 07, 2005 Bugs: #84174 ID: 200503-13

Synopsis ======= mlterm is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-terms/mlterm < 2.9.2 >= 2.9.2
========== mlterm is vulnerable to an integer overflow that can be triggered by specifying a large image file as a background. This only effects usersthat have compiled mlterm with the 'gtk' USE f...

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