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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-text/pstotext in danger of becoming security masked
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:46:00
Message-Id: 1122482368.13892.28.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] app-text/pstotext in danger of becoming security masked by Stefan Cornelius
1 On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:23 +0200, Stefan Cornelius wrote:
2 > app-text/pstotext has a serious remote vulnerability that allows to
3 > execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. It appears to be
4 > unmaintained at the moment.
5 >
6 > If anyone out there is able to take this on and patch it (honestly,
7 > patch is small), that would be much appreciated, the bug number is
8 > 100245. Otherwise, it's our intent to security mask the package in the
9 > next 24 hours.
10
11 fixed
12
13 >
14 > Thanks in advance,
15 > Stefan
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