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Gentoo: GLSA-200610-09 Critical: libmusicbrainz Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Various buffer overflows found in libmusicbrainz may enable remote adversaries to run arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service.
Multiple buffer overflows have been found in libmusicbrainz, which could lead to a Denial of Service or possibly the execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libmusicbrainz: Multiple buffer overflows Date: October 22, 2006 Bugs: #144089 ID: 200610-09

Synopsis ======= Multiple buffer overflows have been found in libmusicbrainz, which could lead to a Denial of Service or possibly the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libmusicbrainz is a client library used to access MusicBrainz music meta data.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/musicbrainz < 2.1.4 >= 2.1.4
========== Luigi Auriemma reported a possible buffer overflow in the MBHttp::Download function of lib/http.cpp as ...

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