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Gentoo Security Update Fixes Common Data Format Library Issue

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Common Data Format Library Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1519
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2080
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-14

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1519
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-14.xml

ChangeLog

2008-05-14 : Initial release

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