Gentoo: GLSA-200606-25 High: Hashcash Heap Overflow Risk and Mitigation

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Hashcash: Possible heap overflow Date: June 26, 2006 Bugs: #134960 ID: 200606-25

Synopsis ======= A heap overflow vulnerability in the Hashcash utility could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/hashcash < 1.21 >= 1.21
========== Andreas Seltenreich has reported a possible heap overflow in the array_push() function in hashcash.c, as a result of an incorrect amou...