A vulnerability was identified in ktools, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "VGETSTRING" [kkstrtext.h] macro that does not properly validate certain strings before being used in a "vsprintf()" function call, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to cause an application linked with ktools to execute arbitrary code.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Mehdi Oudad "deepfear" and Kevin Fernandez "Siegfried"
ChangeLog
2005-11-28 : Initial release
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