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Gentoo: GLSA 202110-03 Moderate: libcurl Security Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2008
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The Gentoo Linux GLSA 202203-02 provides insights on vulnerabilities within SDL_image that can lead to buffer overflows, enabling remote code execution and potential application failures.
Two boundary errors have been identified in SDL_image allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code or the crash of the application using the library

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200802-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: SDL_image: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities Date: February 06, 2008 Bugs: #207933 ID: 200802-01

Synopsis ======= Two boundary errors have been identified in SDL_image allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code or the crash of the application using the library.
Background ========= SDL_image is an image file library that loads images as SDL surfaces, and supports various formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, LBM, PCX, PNG, PNM, TGA, TIFF, XCF, XPM, and XV.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/sdl-image < 1.2.6-r1 >= 1.2.6-r1
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