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SSA-2003-195-01 nfs-utils off-by-one overflow fixed

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2003-195-01 nfs-utils off-by-one overflow fixed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current
to fix an off-by-one buffer overflow in xlog.c. Thanks to Janusz
Niewiadomski for discovering and reporting this problem.

The CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Project has assigned the
identification number CVE-2003-0252 to this issue.

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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