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Gentoo: GLSA-200606-03 Warning: Dia Format String Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Vulnerabilities in the Dia format strings could enable malicious users to run unauthorized code on Gentoo systems. Urgent updates recommended.
Format string vulnerabilities in Dia may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Dia: Format string vulnerabilities Date: June 07, 2006 Bugs: #133699 ID: 200606-03

Synopsis ======= Format string vulnerabilities in Dia may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-office/dia < 0.95.1 >= 0.95.1
========== KaDaL-X discovered a format string error within the handling of filenames. Hans de Goede also discovered several other format string errors in the processing of dia files.
Impact ===== By enticing a user to open a specia...

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