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Gentoo: GLSA-200710-07 Normal: Tk Buffer Overflow Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2007
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Critical vulnerability discovered in Tk impacts Gentoo installations. Immediate upgrade to the latest release is necessary for system protection.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Tk.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Tk: Buffer overflow Date: October 07, 2007 Bugs: #192539 ID: 200710-07

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Tk.
Background ========= Tk is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/tk < 8.4.15-r1 >= 8.4.15-r1
========== Reinhard Max discovered a boundary error in Tk when processing an interlaced GIF with two frames where the second is smaller than the first one.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted GIF image with a Tk-b...

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