Gentoo Linux: 200301-6 Critical Buffer Overflow In HTTP Fetcher
gentoo
January 7, 2003
HTTP Fetcher library is exposed to very fatal buffer overflow.
Summary
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From advisory: "HTTP Fetcher library is exposed to very fatal buffer overflow. And, It influences in other several programs."
Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104187658217144&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-www/http-fetcher-1.0.1 or earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync emerge http-fetcher emerge clean
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PACKAGE : http-fetcher
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : remote
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