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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-20 Normal: curl NTLM Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2005
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Gentoo GLSA-202301-15: Severe Python vulnerability allows unauthorized remote access; mitigate by updating to version 3.9.12.
curl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: curl: NTLM response buffer overflow Date: March 16, 2005 Bugs: #82534 ID: 200503-20

Synopsis ======= curl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= curl is a command line tool for transferring files via many different protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/curl < 7.13.1 >= 7.13.1
========== curl fails to properly check boundaries when handling NTLM authentication.
Impact ===== With a malicious server an attacker could send a carefully crafted NTLM response to a...

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