Gentoo Linux Data Compromise

The vulnerability of the libsmi package up to version 0.4.8-r1 of the Gentoo Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

AZL-6647 CVE-2010-2891 affecting package libsmi for versions less than 0.4.8-27

Buffer overflow in the smiGetNode function in lib/smi.c in libsmi 0.4.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Object Identifier aka OID represented as a numerical string containing many components separated by . dot characters...