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Gentoo: GLSA 200808-06 Normal: libxslt Arbitrary Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A buffer overflow vulnerability in libxslt could enable arbitrary code execution; Gentoo Advisory suggests implementing a fix.
libxslt is affected by a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libxslt: Execution of arbitrary code Date: August 06, 2008 Bugs: #232172 ID: 200808-06

Synopsis ======= libxslt is affected by a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is an XML language to define transformations for XML.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/libxslt < 1.1.24-r1 >= 1.1.24-r1 < 1.1.8
========== Chris Evans (Google Security) reported that t...

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