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From: Stefan Cornelius <dercorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] app-text/pstotext in danger of becoming security masked
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:14:39
Message-Id: 42E75275.5040200@gentoo.org
1 app-text/pstotext has a serious remote vulnerability that allows to
2 execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. It appears to be
3 unmaintained at the moment.
4
5 If anyone out there is able to take this on and patch it (honestly,
6 patch is small), that would be much appreciated, the bug number is
7 100245. Otherwise, it's our intent to security mask the package in the
8 next 24 hours.
9
10 Thanks in advance,
11 Stefan
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