Gentoo: GLSA 200512-09 Low: cURL Vulnerability with Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: cURL: Off-by-one errors in URL handling Date: December 16, 2005 Bugs: #114710 ID: 200512-09

Synopsis ======= cURL is vulnerable to local arbitrary code execution via buffer overflow due to the insecure parsing of URLs.
Background ========= cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/curl < 7.15.1 >= 7.15.1
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