Gentoo: 200306-07 Moderate: kon2 Buffer Overflow Execution Risk
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June 14, 2003
Buffer overflow in kon2 allows local users to execute arbitrary codevia a long -Coding command line argument.
Summary
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Buffer overflow in kon2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -Coding command line argument.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-i18n/kon2 upgrade to kon2-0.3.9b-r1 as follows
emerge sync emerge kon2 emerge clean
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PACKAGE : kon2
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =kon2-0.3.9b-r1
CVE : CAN-2002-1155
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