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Gentoo: GLSA-200611-08 Normal: RPM Buffer Overflow Code Execution

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Fedora Linux Security Notice FLSA 202311-12 highlights a critical memory corruption issue; prompt action advised to mitigate threats.
RPM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when opening specially crafted packages.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: RPM: Buffer overflow Date: November 13, 2006 Bugs: #154218 ID: 200611-08

Synopsis ======= RPM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when opening specially crafted packages.
Background ========= The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/rpm < 4.4.6-r3 >= 4.4.6-r3
========== Vladimir Mosgalin has reported that when processi...

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