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Gentoo: GLSA-200603-05 Normal: Zoo Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Linux GLSA 202102-10 alerts users to a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in libpng, with potential high severity for arbitrary code execution.
A stack-based buffer overflow in zoo may be exploited to execute arbitrary code through malicious ZOO archives.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: zoo: Stack-based buffer overflow Date: March 06, 2006 Bugs: #123782 ID: 200603-05

Synopsis ======= A stack-based buffer overflow in zoo may be exploited to execute arbitrary code through malicious ZOO archives.
Background ========= zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/zoo < 2.10-r1 >= 2.10-r1
========== Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered a boundary error in the fullpath() function in misc.c when processing overly long file and directory name...

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