cscope is a mature, ncurses-based, C source-code tree browsing tool.Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in cscope. An attacker couldcreate a specially crafted source code file that could cause cscope tocrash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when browsed with cscope.(CVE-2004-2541, CVE-2006-4262, CVE-2009-0148, CVE-2009-1577)All users of cscope are advised to upgrade to this updated package, whichcontains backported patches to fix these issues. All running instances ofcscope must be restarted for this update to take effect.