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TITLE:
Fedora update for newsx

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31080

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31080/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for newsx. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"read_article()" function in src/getarticle.c. This can be exploited
to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted NNTP
packet.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update newsx").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Enrico Scholz in a Red Hat bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00485.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00565.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483

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