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kaffeine: buffer overflow

Package(s):kaffeine CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0051
Created:April 5, 2006 Updated:April 6, 2006
Description: Marcus Meissner discovered that kaffeine, a media player for KDE 3, contains an unchecked buffer that can be overwritten remotely when fetching remote RAM playlists which can cause the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-268-1 2006-04-06
Gentoo 200604-04 2006-04-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:065 2006-04-05
Debian DSA-1023-1 2006-04-05
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