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Kaffeine, gxine: remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Package(s):Kaffeine gxine CVE #(s):
Created:November 8, 2004 Updated:November 11, 2004
Description: KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine vulnerable as well. An attacker could create a specially-crafted Content-type header from a malicious HTTP server, and crash a user's instance of Kaffeine or gxine, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. See this SecurityTracker advisory for details.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200411-14:01 2004-11-07

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