Gentoo: GLSA-202203-12 Moderate Severity for Screen Capture Tool Flaw
gentoo
October 20, 2006
Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-08
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Cscope: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: October 20, 2006
Bugs: #144869
ID: 200610-08
Synopsis
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Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to
the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-util/cscope < 15.5.20060927 >= 15.5.20060927
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Unchecked use of strcpy() and *scanf() leads to several buffer
overflows.
Impact
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A user could be enticed to open a carefully crafted file which would
allow the attacker to execu...
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Availability
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