Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200610-03 (ncompress)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200610-03. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200610-03 : ncompress: Buffer Underflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200610-03 ncompress: Buffer Underflow Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a static buffer underflow in ncompress. Impact : An attacker could create a specially crafted LZW archive, that when decompressed by a user...