Gentoo: GLSA 200611-16 Normal Severity: Texinfo Buffer Overflow Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Texinfo: Buffer overflow Date: November 21, 2006 Bugs: #154316 ID: 200611-16

Synopsis ======= Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/texinfo < 4.8-r5 >= 4.8-r5
========== Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the "readline()" function of texindex.c. The "readline()" function is called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands.
Impact ===== By en...