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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-45 Normal: libdb Buffer Overflow Concern

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Debian Security Advisory 202201-15 reveals a moderate severity heap overflow in libxml2, leading to significant security vulnerabilities.
libgsf improperly allocates memory allowing for a heap overflow and possibly the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libgsf: Buffer overflow Date: December 12, 2006 Bugs: #156693 ID: 200612-13

Synopsis ======= libgsf improperly allocates memory allowing for a heap overflow and possibly the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The GNOME Structured File Library is an I/O library that can read and write common file types and handle structured formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 gnome-extra/libgsf < 1.14.2 >= 1.14.2
========== "infamous41md" has discovered that the "ole_init_info" function may allocat...

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