Gentoo: 200611-18 Advisory: TIN Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Risk
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November 24, 2006
Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in TIN, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-18
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: TIN: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: November 24, 2006
Bugs: #150229
ID: 200611-18
Synopsis
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Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in TIN, possibly leading
to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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TIN is a threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader for a variety
of platforms.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-nntp/tin < 1.8.2 >= 1.8.2
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Urs Janssen and Aleksey Salow have reported multiple buffer overflows
in TIN. Additionally, the OpenPKG project has reported an allocation
off-by-one flaw wh...
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