Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200606-25 (hashcash)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200606-25. 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...

HashCash antispam token generation utility format tring bug

From: e-mail message header format string bug...

Hashcash: Format string vulnerability

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address...