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Gentoo GLSA-200606-10: Cscope Normal Buffer Overflow Risks

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2006
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Cscope in Gentoo contains vulnerabilities due to buffer underflows, which may facilitate arbitrary code execution. Users are strongly urged to perform an upgrade immediately.
Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Cscope: Many buffer overflows Date: June 11, 2006 Bugs: #133829 ID: 200606-10

Synopsis ======= Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-util/cscope < 15.5-r6 >= 15.5-r6
========== Cscope does not verify the length of file names sourced in #include statements.
Impact ===== A user could be enticed to source a carefully crafted file which will allow the attacker to execu...

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