aru Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:029 : libast Updated libast packages fixes buffer overflow vulnerability February 2nd, 2006 Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X argument. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are: 2006.0Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:029 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0224 Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 0.15 2005/11/24 16:53:12 aru Exp aru $) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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