Updated: October 17, 2002
Status
Affected
Vendor Statement
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Hash: SHA1 GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-003 PACKAGE : ggv
SUMMARY?: buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : local
DATE ?? : 2002-10-17 08:30 UTC ggv shares the same buffer overflow problem that gv did. Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/09.26.02.txt SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-text/ggv-1.99.90 and earlier update their systems
as follows: emerge rsync
emerge ggv
emerge clean aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Addendum
The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.