70919 – games-arcade/xboing Buffer Overflows

Bug 70919 - games-arcade/xboing Buffer Overflows

Summary: games-arcade/xboing Buffer Overflows

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://lwn.net/Articles/73448/
Whiteboard:	C2? [ebuild?] jaervosz
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-11-11 21:59 UTC by Owen Ford
Modified:	2004-11-12 00:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Owen Ford 2004-11-11 21:59:18 UTC

This package appears to be way out of date and might have security issues as listed in the above url.

Since we don't have a "games" user I'm not sure how this would work but I didn't see any other bugs about this.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Owen Ford 2004-11-11 22:00:15 UTC

You know it really helps if I'd mention wtf package I'm talking about...

games-arcade/xboing

*sigh*

Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-12 00:04:46 UTC

Games please verify and patch as necessary.

Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-12 00:11:07 UTC

There's no security issue here.

Comment 4 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-12 00:25:05 UTC

Thx.

Closing this as invalid. If anyone disagree feel free to reopen.