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Gentoo: GLSA 200508-01 High: Compress::Zlib Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202110-02 highlights a significant vulnerability in OpenSSL that may lead to unauthorized access.
Compress::Zlib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Compress::Zlib: Buffer overflow Date: August 01, 2005 Bugs: #100540 ID: 200508-01

Synopsis ======= Compress::Zlib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The Compress::Zlib is a Perl module which provides an interface to the zlib compression library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-perl/Compress-Zlib < 1.35 >= 1.35
========== Compress::Zlib 1.34 contains a local vulnerable version of zlib, which may lead to a buffer overflow.
Impact ===== By creating a speciall...

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