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Gentoo: 200306-07 Moderate: kon2 Buffer Overflow Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey June 14, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Revise the kon2 package to its latest version in order to mitigate a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow local code execution on Gentoo Linux environments.
Buffer overflow in kon2 allows local users to execute arbitrary codevia a long -Coding command line argument.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-07
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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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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at   
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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo buffer overflow local exploit app-i18n/kon2

Resolution

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Availability

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Concerns

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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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo buffer overflow local exploit app-i18n/kon2

Synopsis

Background

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Workaround