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Gentoo: GLSA-200512-17 Moderate: OpenMotif Memory Safety Vulnerability

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Critical Gentoo notice regarding OpenMotif library: vulnerability to buffer overflow may permit arbitrary code execution. Immediate upgrade advised.
Two buffer overflows have been discovered in libUil, part of the OpenMotif toolkit, that can potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: OpenMotif, AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries: Buffer overflows in libUil library Date: December 28, 2005 Bugs: #114234, #116481 ID: 200512-16

Synopsis ======= Two buffer overflows have been discovered in libUil, part of the OpenMotif toolkit, that can potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. The OpenMotif libraries are included in the AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries, which emulate the x86 (32-bit) architecture on the AMD64 (64-bit) architecture.
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