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[DSA1186] DSA-1186-1 cscope

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1186-1 cscope

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows
in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 15.5-1.1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 15.5+cvs20060902-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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