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Gentoo: GLSA-202304-01 Important: VLC Media Player Security Risk

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2006
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Kaffeine has a buffer overflow risk that remote attackers could exploit to execute arbitrary code on Gentoo systems.
Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Kaffeine: Buffer overflow Date: April 05, 2006 Bugs: #127326 ID: 200604-04

Synopsis ======= Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/kaffeine < 0.7.1-r2 >= 0.7.1-r2
========== Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists via HTTP.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM playlist resulting in the e...

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