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Bug#: 260968
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Reporter: Robert Buchholz <rbu@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2009-03-02 17:22 0000 
On Monday 02 March 2009, Pinar Yanardag wrote:
> A buffer overflow vulnerability has been fixed in the latest version
> of mpfr. From GNU mpfr changelog [1]:
>
> --->8---
> Changes from version 2.4.0 to version 2.4.1
> * Security fix in mpfr_snprintf and mpfr_vsnprintf (buffer overflow).
>
> --->8---
>
> [1]: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.1

------- Comment #1 From Robert Buchholz 2009-03-02 17:24:21 0000 ------- 
Is 2.4.1 good to go for stabling?

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2009-03-03 00:23:09 0000 ------- 
np

------- Comment #3 From Robert Buchholz 2009-03-03 03:37:59 0000 ------- 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1_p1
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

------- Comment #4 From Jeroen Roovers 2009-03-03 05:37:24 0000 ------- 
Stable for HPPA.

------- Comment #5 From Brent Baude 2009-03-04 16:46:27 0000 ------- 
ppc64 done

------- Comment #6 From Robert Buchholz 2009-03-04 17:08:50 0000 ------- 
CVE-2009-0757 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0757):
  Multiple buffer overflows in GNU MPFR 2.4.0 allow context-dependent
  attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the (1)
  mpfr_snprintf and (2) mpfr_vsnprintf functions.

------- Comment #7 From Ferris McCormick 2009-03-04 17:41:39 0000 ------- 
Sparc stable, "All 148 tests pass."

------- Comment #8 From Tobias Scherbaum 2009-03-04 19:50:14 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #9 From Markus Meier 2009-03-07 10:53:36 0000 ------- 
amd64/x86 stable

------- Comment #10 From Raúl Porcel 2009-03-07 14:22:52 0000 ------- 
alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh stable

------- Comment #11 From Robert Buchholz 2009-03-09 13:08:10 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200903-13
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