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Bug 70919

Summary: games-arcade/xboing Buffer Overflows
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Owen Ford <oford>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: games
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://lwn.net/Articles/73448/
Whiteboard: C2? [ebuild?] jaervosz
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

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This package appears to be way out of date and might have security issues as listed in the above url.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