Stack Protection Bypass in alsa-lib Package in Red Hat Linux 4

CVE-2005-0087 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library.

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