Package: inotify-tools
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for inotify-tools.

CVE-2007-5037[0]:
| Buffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in
| src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows
| context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long
| filename.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5037

Kind regards
Nico

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