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TITLE:
Gentoo update for pan

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31315

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31315/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for pan. 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
PartsBatch class when processing certain NZB files. This may be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code by
e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted NZB file.

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-nntp/pan-0.132-r3" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-15.xml

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