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Gentoo: GLSA-202103-22 Critical: apache2 Potential Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2005
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Numerous flaws identified in monkeyd might result in critical security risks; updating is advised.
Format string and Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the monkeyd HTTP server, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: monkeyd: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 15, 2005 Bugs: #87916 ID: 200504-14

Synopsis ======= Format string and Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the monkeyd HTTP server, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= monkeyd is a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure web server for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/monkeyd < 0.9.1 >= 0.9.1
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a double expansion error in monkeyd, resu...

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