<?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 ">=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>