Gentoo: GLSA-200608-18 Normal: Net::Server Format String DoS
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August 10, 2006
A format string vulnerability has been reported in Net::Server which can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-18
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Net::Server: Format string vulnerability
Date: August 10, 2006
Bugs: #142386
ID: 200608-18
Synopsis
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A format string vulnerability has been reported in Net::Server which
can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service.
Background
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Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. It is used by
several Perl applications like Postgrey.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-perl/net-server < 0.88 >= 0.88
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The log function of Net::Server does not handle format string
specifiers properly before they are sent to syslog.
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