Gentoo: GLSA-202310-05 Critical: LibXYZ Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: LibAST: Privilege escalation Date: January 29, 2006 Bugs: #120106 ID: 200601-14

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow in LibAST may result in execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Background ========= LibAST is a utility library that was originally intended to accompany Eterm, but may be used by various other applications.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/libast < 0.7 >= 0.7
========== Michael Jennings discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in the configuration engine of LibAST.
Impact ===== The vulnerability can...