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Gentoo: GLSA-200606-24 Normal Severity: wv2 Integer Overflow Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2006
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Fedora's FSA-202207-12 highlights a moderate severity buffer overflow in lib sample, potentially allowing unauthorized access.
An integer overflow could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: wv2: Integer overflow Date: June 23, 2006 Bugs: #136759 ID: 200606-24

Synopsis ======= An integer overflow could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= wv2 is a filter library for Microsoft Word files, used in many Office suites.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/wv2 < 0.2.3 >= 0.2.3
========== A boundary checking error was found in wv2, which could lead to an integer overflow.
Impact ===== An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the program that uses the library via...

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