CVE-2007-0406 Affecting gxine package, versions <0.5.8-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GXINE-266558
  • published23 Jan 2007
  • disclosed23 Jan 2007

Introduced: 23 Jan 2007

CVE-2007-0406  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 gxine to version 0.5.8-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gxine package and not the gxine package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) main function in (a) client.c, and the (2) server_setup and (3) server_client_connect functions in (b) server.c in gxine 0.5.9 and earlier allow local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

CVSS Scores

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