Gentoo: GLSA 200711-21 High Severity: Bochs Execution Risk
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November 18, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bochs, possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-21
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 17, 2007
Bugs: #188148
ID: 200711-21
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bochs, possibly
allowing for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Background
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Bochs is a IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++.
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1 app-emulation/bochs < 2.3 >= 2.3
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