Gentoo: 200512-13 High: Dropbear Privilege Escalation Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Dropbear: Privilege escalation Date: December 23, 2005 Bugs: #116006 ID: 200512-13

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow in Dropbear could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
Background ========= Dropbear is an SSH server and client with a small memory footprint.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/dropbear < 0.47 >= 0.47
========== Under certain conditions Dropbear could fail to allocate a sufficient amount of memory, possibly resulting in a buffer overflow.
Impact ===== By sending specially crafted data ...