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Title : GNU Texinfo Texindex "readline()" File Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4412
CVE ID : CVE-2006-4810
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-09

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A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Texinfo, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands [...]

Solution

A fix is available via CVS :
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/util/texindex.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Miloslav Trmac (Redhat)

ChangeLog

2006-11-09 : Initial release

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