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Gentoo alsaplayer Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA21639
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Popularity: 7,481 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4089


Description:
Gentoo has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in alsaplayer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA21422

Solution:
Gentoo advises to unmerge the "media-sound/alsaplayer" package.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-24.xml

Other References:
SA21422:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21422/


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