Buffer Overflows: The Uninvited Party Crashers of Open-Source Software

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) affecting Gentoo Linux can lead to a denial of service. The issue rests in GMP’s mpz_inp_raw function and can be mitigated by avoiding untrusted input and upgrading to the latest version of GMP.

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