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Gentoo Linux: GLSA-200710-28 Normal: Qt Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2007
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The Gentoo GLSA 200711-15 highlights a medium risk overflow issue within KDE, which could facilitate unauthorized execution of code from a distance.
An off-by-one vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-28 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Qt: Buffer overflow Date: October 25, 2007 Bugs: #192472 ID: 200710-28

Synopsis ======= An off-by-one vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/qt < 3.3.8-r4 >= 3.3.8-r4
========== Dirk Mueller from the KDE development team discovered a boundary error in file qutfcodec.cpp when processing Unicode strings.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a specially craft...

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