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A vulnerability has been reported for Gnome. It has been reported that when processing NLST data from an FTP server, various Gnome functions or utilities may fail to sufficiently handle the size of data returned. Due to subsequent calculations, insufficient data may be allocated for storage of the NLST data. This may result in excessive data being copied into insufficient memory, effectively causing a denial of service. It should be noted that the precise details regarding this vulnerability are currently unknown. The problem may lie in specific Gnome utilities or possibly in Gnome library string parsing functions linked to by other applications.

A vulnerability has been reported for Gnome. It has been reported that when processing NLST data from an FTP server, various Gnome functions or utilities may fail to sufficiently handle the size of data returned. Due to subsequent calculations, insufficient data may be allocated for storage of the NLST data. This may result in excessive data being copied into insufficient memory, effectively causing a denial of service. It should be noted that the precise details regarding this vulnerability are currently unknown. The problem may lie in specific Gnome utilities or possibly in Gnome library string parsing functions linked to by other applications.