Kaffeine, gxine: remotely exploitable buffer overflow [LWN.net]

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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