Kaffiene is reportedly affected by a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. The problem presents itself due to insufficient boundary checks on user-supplied strings prior to copying them into finite stack-based buffers. An attacker can leverage this issue remotely to execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that executed the vulnerable software.
Kaffiene is reportedly affected by a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. The problem presents itself due to insufficient boundary checks on user-supplied strings prior to copying them into finite stack-based buffers. An attacker can leverage this issue remotely to execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that executed the vulnerable software.