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Gentoo: 200801-18 Normal: Kazehakase Multiple Code Risks

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2008
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Kazehakase on Gentoo contains various security flaws that could lead to unauthorized code execution. Users are advised to upgrade their versions promptly.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Kazehakase could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200801-18
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Kazehakase: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: January 30, 2008
      Bugs: #198983
        ID: 200801-18


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Kazehakase could result in the execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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Kazehakase is a web browser based on the Gecko engine.

Affected packages
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     Package                /  Vulnerable  /                Unaffected
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  1  www-client/kazehakase       < 0.5.0                      >= 0.5.0

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Kazehakase includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple
buffer overflows and memory corruptions vulnerabilities (GLSA
200711-30).

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