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newt: buffer overflow

Package(s):newt CVE #(s):CVE-2009-2905
Created:September 24, 2009 Updated:June 3, 2010
Description: From the Debian alert: Miroslav Lichvar discovered that newt, a windowing toolkit, is prone to a buffer overflow in the content processing code, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:249-1 2009-12-05
Gentoo 201006-14 2010-06-02
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:249 2009-09-27
Fedora FEDORA-2009-9961 2009-09-25
Fedora FEDORA-2009-9957 2009-09-25
CentOS CESA-2009:1463 2009-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1463-01 2009-09-24
Ubuntu USN-837-1 2009-09-24
Debian DSA-1894-1 2009-09-24
CentOS CESA-2009:1463 2009-10-30
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:017 2009-10-26
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