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Gentoo: GLSA 201509-12 Critical: libxml2 XML Parsing Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2007
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Gentoo Linux security update for flac123 flaw. Immediate upgrade recommended to mitigate possible code execution vulnerabilities.
flac123 is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: flac123: Buffer overflow Date: September 14, 2007 Bugs: #186220 ID: 200709-06

Synopsis ======= flac123 is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= flac123 is a command-line application for playing FLAC audio files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/flac123 < 0.0.11 >= 0.0.11
========== A possible buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the local__vcentry_parse_value() function in vorbiscomment.c.
Impact ===== An attacker could entice a user to pl...

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