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Gentoo: 202310-45 Critical: XYZ Library Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
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Several vulnerabilities found in MPFR may result in Denial of Service; Gentoo users are advised to upgrade.
Multiple buffer overflows in MPFR might lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MPFR: Denial of Service Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #260968 ID: 200903-13

Synopsis ======= Multiple buffer overflows in MPFR might lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= MPFR is a library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/mpfr < 2.4.1 >= 2.4.1
========== Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in the mpfr_snprintf() and mpfr_vsnprintf() functions.
Impact ===== A remote user could exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service in an appli...

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