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| <glsa id="200903-13"> |
| <title>MPFR: Denial of Service</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Multiple buffer overflows in MPFR might lead to a Denial of Service. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">mpfr</product> |
| <announced>March 09, 2009</announced> |
| <revised>March 09, 2009: 01</revised> |
| <bug>260968</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="dev-libs/mpfr" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| MPFR is a library for multiple-precision floating-point computations |
| with exact rounding. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in the mpfr_snprintf() and |
| mpfr_vsnprintf() functions. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote user could exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of |
| Service in an application using MPFR via unknown vectors. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All MPRF users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0757">CVE-2009-0757</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:35:53 +0000"> |
| rbu |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:14:49 +0000"> |
| rbu |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:14:57 +0000"> |
| rbu |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |