Gentoo: 200611-18 Advisory: TIN Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Risk

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 ======= Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in TIN, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= TIN is a threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader for a variety of platforms.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-nntp/tin < 1.8.2 >= 1.8.2
========== 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...