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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-11
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: TunePimp: Buffer overflow
Date: July 28, 2006
Bugs: #140184
ID: 200607-11
Synopsis
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A vulnerability in TunePimp has been reported which could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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The TunePimp library (also referred to as libtunepimp) is a development
library geared towards developers who wish to create MusicBrainz
enabled tagging applications.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/tunepimp <= 0.4.2 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
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Kevin Kofler has reported a vulnerability where three stack variables
are allocated with 255, 255 and 100 bytes respectively, yet 25...
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