A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address.
Successful exploitation would permit an attacker to disrupt Hashcash users, and potentially execute arbitrary code.
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