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kdenetwork: buffer overflow

Package(s):kdenetwork CVE #(s):CAN-2002-1247
Created:November 11, 2002 Updated:December 20, 2002
Description: iDEFENSE reports a security vulnerability in the klisa package, that provides a LAN information service similar to "Network Neighbourhood", which was discovered by Texonet. It is possible for a local attacker to exploit a buffer overflow condition in resLISa, a restricted version of KLISa. The vulnerability exists in the parsing of the LOGNAME environment variable, an overly long value will overwrite the instruction pointer thereby allowing an attacker to seize control of the executable.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-214-1 2002-12-20
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:080 2002-11-21
SuSE SuSE-SA:2002:042 2002-11-12
Debian DSA-193-1 2002-11-11

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