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Gentoo: GLSA-202120-01 Critical: OpenSSL Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2006
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GTetrinet within Gentoo exhibits a susceptibility to buffer overflow, facilitating the possibility of remote code execution. Please upgrade to version 0.7.9 to mitigate this risk.
GTetrinet is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200609-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GTetrinet: Remote code execution Date: September 06, 2006 Bugs: #144867 ID: 200609-02

Synopsis ======= GTetrinet is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= GTetrinet is a networked Tetris clone for GNOME 2.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 games-puzzle/gtetrinet < 0.7.9 >= 0.7.9
========== Michael Gehring has found that GTetrinet fails to properly handle array indexes.
Impact ===== An attacker can potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a negative number of players to the ...

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