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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes capi4k-utils Privilege Escalation and DoS Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes capi4k-utils Privilege Escalation and DoS Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1569
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1217
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-30
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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "bufprint()" function in capi4k-utils, which could be exploited by local attackers by sending specially crafted CAPI packets.
Affected Products
net-dialup/capi4k-utils versions prior to 20050718-r3
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-dialup/capi4k-utils-20050718-r3"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1569
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-23.xml
ChangeLog
2007-04-30 : Initial release
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