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rxvt-unicode -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Description:

A rxvt-unicode changelog reports:

Fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).

References:

Affects:

portaudit: rxvt-unicode -- buffer overflow vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>