From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 04:12:36 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for mikmod

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9174/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for mikmod. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially could be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error. This can be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow by including a file with an
overly long, specially crafted filename inside an archive.

Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into reading
the malicious archive using mikmod.

SOLUTION:
Update Gentoo:

emerge sync
emerge mikmod
emerge clean

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