Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes cURL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2951 CVE ID : CVE-2005-4077
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-12-19
Technical Description
Gentoo has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in cURL/libcURL. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in "lib/url.c" when processing overly long URLs, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2791
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