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mpfr: denial of service

Package(s):mpfr CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0757
Created:March 9, 2009 Updated:May 8, 2009
Description:

From the Gentoo advisory:

Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in the mpfr_snprintf() and mpfr_vsnprintf() functions.

A remote user could exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service in an application using MPFR via unknown vectors.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-772-1 2009-05-07
Gentoo 200903-13 2009-03-09

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