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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200903-13">
+ <title>MPFR: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple buffer overflows in MPFR might lead to a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mpfr</product>
+ <announced>2009-03-09</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-03-09</revised>
+ <bug>260968</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/mpfr" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ MPFR is a library for multiple-precision floating-point computations
+ with exact rounding.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in the mpfr_snprintf() and
+ mpfr_vsnprintf() functions.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote user could exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of
+ Service in an application using MPFR via unknown vectors.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All MPRF users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0757">CVE-2009-0757</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-07T16:35:53Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-07T18:14:49Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-07T18:14:57Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>