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TITLE:
Gentoo alsaplayer Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21639

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/21639/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
https://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in alsaplayer, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

For more information:
SA21422

SOLUTION:
Gentoo advises to unmerge the "media-sound/alsaplayer" package.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-24.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21422:
https://secunia.com/advisories/21422/

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