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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes NBD Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes NBD Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-3082
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3534
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-24

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Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in NBD Tools. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the nbd-server that fails to properly handle specially crafted requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the NBD server.

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2005-12-24 : Initial release

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