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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-19 Normal: cURL Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux team has released a critical alert about a buffer overflow vulnerability in cURL, urging users to update their systems for enhanced security
cURL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: cURL: NTLM username stack overflow Date: October 22, 2005 Bugs: #109097 ID: 200510-19

Synopsis ======= cURL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= cURL is a command line tool and library for transferring files via many different protocols. It supports NTLM authentication to retrieve files from Windows-based systems.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/curl < 7.15.0 >= 7.15.0
========== iDEFENSE reported that insufficient bounds checking on a memcpy() of the supplied...

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