Gentoo: GLSA-200905-02 Normal: Cscope Arbitrary Code Execution Risk
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May 24, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities in Cscope might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200905-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Cscope: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: May 24, 2009
Bugs: #263023
ID: 200905-02
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Cscope might allow for the remote execution
of arbitrary code.
Background
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Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.
Affected packages
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1 dev-util/cscope < 15.7a >= 15.7a
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James Peach of Apple discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in
cscope's handling of long file system paths (CVE-2009-0148). Multiple
stack-based buffer overflows were reported in the put...
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