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Gentoo: GLSA-202203-12 Moderate Severity for Screen Capture Tool Flaw

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202310-22 highlights vulnerabilities in the Xtool software, posing risks of unauthorized access and potential data breaches.
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 ======= Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-util/cscope < 15.5.20060927 >= 15.5.20060927
========== Unchecked use of strcpy() and *scanf() leads to several buffer overflows.
Impact ===== A user could be enticed to open a carefully crafted file which would allow the attacker to execu...

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