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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pan Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pan Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2298
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2363
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-06
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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in Pan when processing data structures for Parts batches via the PartsBatch class, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted ".nzb" file.
Affected Products
net-nntp/pan versions prior to 0.132-r3
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-nntp/pan-0.132-r3"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2298
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-15.xml
ChangeLog
2008-08-06 : Initial release
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