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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-23 High Severity: Kopete Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2005
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Vulnerabilities in Kopete's input handling could permit malicious actors to run unauthorized code, affecting Gentoo users. Recommended to update promptly.
Kopete is vulnerable to several input validation vulnerabilities which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Kopete: Vulnerability in included Gadu library Date: July 25, 2005 Bugs: #99754 ID: 200507-23

Synopsis ======= Kopete is vulnerable to several input validation vulnerabilities which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Kopete (also part of kdenetwork) is the KDE Instant Messenger.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/kdenetwork < 3.4.1-r1 >= 3.4.1-r1 *>= 3.3.2-r2 ...

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