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Gentoo: GLSA-200804-29 Normal: Comix Command Execution and DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA 202309-15 addresses vulnerabilities in Xtool allowing potential data breaches and service interruptions. Upgrade advised.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Comix may lead to execution of arbitrary commands and a Denial of Service.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200804-29
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Comix: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: April 25, 2008
      Bugs: #215694
        ID: 200804-29


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Comix may lead to execution of arbitrary
commands and a Denial of Service.

Background
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Comix is a GTK comic book viewer.

Affected packages
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     Package          /  Vulnerable  /                      Unaffected
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  1  media-gfx/comix     < 3.6.4-r1                        >= 3.6.4-r1

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Comix does not properly sanitize filenames containing shell
metacharacters when they are passed to the rar, unrar, or jpegtran
programs (CVE-2008-1568). Comix also cre...
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