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Gentoo: GLSA 202310-15 Urgent: Threats from Network Daemon Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2007
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Critical vulnerabilities detected in Gentoo's Network Audio System necessitate urgent resolution. Update promptly to safeguard your system.
The Network Audio System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could result in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: NAS: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 23, 2007 Bugs: #171428 ID: 200704-20

Synopsis ======= The Network Audio System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could result in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= NAS is a network transparent, client/server audio transport system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/nas < 1.8b >= 1.8b
========== Luigi Auriemma has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in NAS, some of which include a buffer overflow in the function accept_att_local(), an integer o...

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