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CVE-2009-2905 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (newt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.