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Gentoo: GLSA-200504-11 High: JunkBuster Multiple Threats

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2005
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Various flaws within PrivacyGuard can jeopardize both confidentiality and operational consistency. It is advised to perform updates for enhanced security.
JunkBuster is vulnerable to a heap corruption vulnerability, and under certain configurations may allow an attacker to modify settings.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: JunkBuster: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 13, 2005 Bugs: #88537 ID: 200504-11

Synopsis ======= JunkBuster is vulnerable to a heap corruption vulnerability, and under certain configurations may allow an attacker to modify settings.
Background ========= JunkBuster is a filtering HTTP proxy, designed to enhance privacy and remove unwanted content.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-proxy/junkbuster < 2.0.2-r3 >= 2.0.2-r3
========== James Ranson reported a vulnerability when JunkBuster is configured to run in single-threaded mode, an attacker...

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