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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-02 High Severity: Oops! Proxy Remote Code Exec

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2005
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Urgent attention needed for the Oops! proxy server as a critical remote code execution vulnerability has emerged.
The Oops! proxy server contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability, which could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Oops!: Remote code execution Date: May 05, 2005 Bugs: #91303 ID: 200505-02

Synopsis ======= The Oops! proxy server contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability, which could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Oops! is an advanced, multithreaded caching web proxy.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/oops < 1.5.24_pre20050503 >= 1.5.24_pre20050503
========== A format string flaw has been detected in the my_xlog() function of the Oops! proxy, which is called by the passwd_mysql and passwd_pgsql module's auth() ...

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