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Gentoo: 200712-13 Normal: E2fsprogs Multiple Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2007
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2007-99 highlights vulnerabilities in OpenSSL permitting unauthorized access. Immediate patching advised.
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in E2fsprogs could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: E2fsprogs: Multiple buffer overflows Date: December 18, 2007 Bugs: #201546 ID: 200712-13

Synopsis ======= Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in E2fsprogs could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= E2fsprogs provides utilities for use with the ext2 and ext3 file systems including the libext2fs library that allows user-level programs to manipulate an ext2 or ext3 file system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-fs/e2fsprogs < 1.40.3 >= 1.40.3
========== Rafal Wojtczuk (McAfee AVERT Research) discovered multiple inte...

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