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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes NBD Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes NBD Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-3082
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3534
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-24
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Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in NBD Tools. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the nbd-server that fails to properly handle specially crafted requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the NBD server.
Affected Products
sys-block/nbd versions prior to 2.8.2-r1
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=sys-block/nbd-2.8.2-r1"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3082
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-14.xml
ChangeLog
2005-12-24 : Initial release
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