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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200611-16">
<title>Texinfo: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>
Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">texinfo</product>
<announced>2006-11-21</announced>
<revised count="01">2006-11-21</revised>
<bug>154316</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/texinfo" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">4.8-r5</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.8-r5</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the
"readline()" function of texindex.c. The "readline()" function is
called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
By enticing a user to open a specially crafted Texinfo file, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user
running Texinfo.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Texinfo users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4810">CVE-2006-4810</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-11-15T21:23:53Z">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-11-15T21:39:27Z">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-11-16T14:40:00Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>
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