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Gentoo: GLSA-200612-17 High: GNU Radius Format String Threat

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
An urgent security alert highlights a critical format string vulnerability found in the GNU Radius application, which could potentially allow for remote code execution.
A format string vulnerabilty has been found in GNU Radius, which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: GNU Radius: Format string vulnerability Date: December 14, 2006 Bugs: #156376 ID: 200612-17

Synopsis ======= A format string vulnerabilty has been found in GNU Radius, which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= GNU Radius is a GNU version of Radius, a server for remote user authentication and accounting.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/gnuradius < 1.4 >= 1.4
========== A format string vulnerability was found in the sqllog function from the SQL accounting code for radiusd. That function is only ...

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