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Gentoo: 200604-10 Moderate: Wine Binary Overflow Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical flaw in Wine could lead to unauthorized execution of code through specially designed WMF files. Immediate attention required!
There is a flaw in Wine in the handling of Windows Metafiles (WMF) files, which could possibly result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability Date: January 13, 2006 Bugs: #118101 ID: 200601-09

Synopsis ======= There is a flaw in Wine in the handling of Windows Metafiles (WMF) files, which could possibly result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Wine is a free implementation of Windows APIs for Unix-like systems.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emulation/wine < 20050930 >= 20050930
========== H D Moore discovered that Wine implements the insecure-by-design SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function for Windows Metafil...

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