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Gentoo: GLSA-200703-17 High: ulogd Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202204-10 addresses a critical vulnerability in the OpenVPN service, which could lead to unauthorized access and execution of arbitrary commands.
ulogd contains a possible buffer overflow potentially allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200703-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ulogd: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: March 18, 2007 Bugs: #161882 ID: 200703-17

Synopsis ======= ulogd contains a possible buffer overflow potentially allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= ulogd is a userspace daemon for netfilter related logging.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/ulogd < 1.23-r1 >= 1.23-r1
========== SUSE reported unspecified buffer overflows in ulogd involving the calculation of string lengths.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could trigger a possible buffer overflow through...

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