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Gentoo: GLSA-200605-14 Normal: libextractor Heap-based Buffer Overflows

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
libextractor on Gentoo has critical heap overflow vulnerabilities that necessitate prompt action and updates.
libextractor is vulnerable to two heap overflow vulnerabilities which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows Date: May 21, 2006 Bugs: #133570 ID: 200605-14

Synopsis ======= libextractor is vulnerable to two heap overflow vulnerabilities which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libextractor is a library used to extract metadata from arbitrary files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libextractor < 0.5.14 >= 0.5.14
========== Luigi Auriemma has found two heap-based buffer overflows in libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier: one of them occurs in the asf_read_header function in t...

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