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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Centericq LiveJournal Module Buffer Overflow Issue
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Centericq LiveJournal Module Buffer Overflow Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0306
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0160
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-24
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Gentoo has released security updates to address a vulnerability identified in Centericq. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error in the "hooks/ljhook.cc" file that does not properly handle certain communications with the LiveJournal service, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
Affected Products
net-im/centericq version 4.21.0-r2 and prior
Solution
Remove the affected package :
# emerge --ask --verbose --unmerge "net-im/centericq"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0306
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-20.xml
ChangeLog
2007-01-24 : Initial release
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