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Gentoo: GLSA 200804-07 High: PECL APC Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical buffer overflow in PECL APC may permit remote code execution, posing a significant risk to users.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in PECL APC might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PECL APC: Buffer Overflow Date: April 09, 2008 Bugs: #214576 ID: 200804-07

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow vulnerability in PECL APC might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= PECL Alternative PHP Cache (PECL APC) is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-php5/pecl-apc < 3.0.16-r1 >= 3.0.16-r1
========== Daniel Papasian discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the apc_search_paths() function in the file apc.c when processing long f...

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