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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200501-10">
  <title>Vilistextum: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Vilistextum is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to
    execute arbitrary code through the use of a malicious webpage.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vilistextum</product>
  <announced>January 06, 2005</announced>
  <revised>January 06, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>74694</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/vilistextum" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Vilistextum is an HTML to text converter.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ariel Berkman discovered that Vilistextum unsafely reads data into
    an array without checking the length. This code vulnerability may lead
    to a buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could craft a malicious webpage which, when
    converted, would result in the execution of arbitrary code with the
    rights of the user running Vilistextum.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Vilistextum users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/vilistextum-2.6.7&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/vilistextum.txt">Original Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1299">CAN-2004-1299</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon,  3 Jan 2005 15:34:01 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue,  4 Jan 2005 11:50:53 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu,  6 Jan 2005 13:22:37 +0000">
    SeJo
  </metadata>
</glsa>