Comment 0 for bug 1034623

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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

> Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way the
> Base64 decoder of libotr, an Off-The-Record Messaging library and
> toolkit, performed decoding of certain messages. A remote attacker
> could provide a specially-crafted OTR message that once processed
> in an application linked against libotr would lead to that
> application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with
> the privileges of the user running the application.