Gentoo: GLSA 200611-16 Normal Severity: Texinfo Buffer Overflow Risk
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November 21, 2006
Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-apps/texinfo < 4.8-r5 >= 4.8-r5
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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
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By en...
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