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monkeyd: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):monkeyd CVE #(s):
Created:April 15, 2005 Updated:April 20, 2005
Description: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a double expansion error in monkeyd, resulting in a format string vulnerability. Ciaran McCreesh of Gentoo Linux discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability, a syntax error caused monkeyd to zero out unallocated memory should a zero byte file be requested.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200504-14 2005-04-15
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