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hashcash -- format string vulnerability

Description:

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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Affects:

portaudit: hashcash -- format string vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>