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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:07:35 +0200
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Michael Abbott <michael@araneidae.co.uk>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ GLSA 200408-10 ] gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow (fwd)
Message-ID:  <2593165E-EDE2-11D8-87C4-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040814092146.H98241@saturn.home>

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Michael Abbott wrote:

> The vulnerability report below was published on bugtraq on Thursday, 
> but I see that the print/gv port is still on the vulnerable (3.5.8-r3) 
> version and that (as of last night) this vulnerability is not reported 
> by portaudit.
>
> Am I forwarding this report to the right place?

More or less. While Gentoo decided to fix this bug now in version 
3.5.8-r4, we considered it better to fix it in version 3.5.8_1 (October 
18th 2002). Usually old vulnerabilites aren't added to the portaudit 
database (due to the effort necessary).

-Oliver



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