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libconvert-uulib-perl: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):

libconvert-uulib-perl

CVE #(s):

CAN-2005-1349

Created:

May 20, 2005

Updated:

January 27, 2006

Description:

Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis discovered a buffer overflow in Convert::UUlib (before 1.051), a Perl interface to the uulib library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDKSA-2006:022	2006-01-26
Debian	DSA-727-1	2005-05-20

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libconvert-uulib-perl: arbitrary code execution

Posted Feb 3, 2006 13:54 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Fedora Extras resolution:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159469