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Gentoo: GLSA-200711-01 Normal Severity: gFTP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows have been identified in gFTP for Gentoo, potentially allowing for both arbitrary code execution and denial of service attacks.
Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in fsplib code used in gFTP.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-01
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal Title: gFTP: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 01, 2007 Bugs: #188252 ID: 200711-01

Synopsis ======= Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in fsplib code used in gFTP.
Background ========= gFTP is an FTP client for the GNOME desktop environment.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/gftp < 2.0.18-r6 >= 2.0.18-r6
========== Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered two boundary errors in fsplib code included in gFTP when processing overly long directory or file names.
Impact ===== A remote...

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