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Gentoo: GLSA-200608-22 Normal: fbida Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2006
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Critical flaw discovered in fbida poses risk to Gentoo systems. Apply the latest updates to address vulnerabilities and uphold security standards.
The fbgs script provided by fbida allows the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: fbida: Arbitrary command execution Date: August 23, 2006 Bugs: #141684 ID: 200608-22

Synopsis ======= The fbgs script provided by fbida allows the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11. fbgs is a PostScript and PDF viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/fbida < 2.03-r4 >= 2.03-r4
========== Toth Andras has discovered a typographic mistake in the "fbgs" script, shipped with fbida if the "fbcon" and "pdf...

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