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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-21 Advisory: Potential Security Risk in Imaging Library

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Issues in Qt image processing could lead to system failures or unauthorized code execution on Gentoo platforms, necessitating prompt software upgrades.
There are several bugs in Qt's image-handling code which could lead to crashes or arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Qt: Image loader overflows Date: August 22, 2004 Bugs: #60855 ID: 200408-20

Synopsis ======= There are several bugs in Qt's image-handling code which could lead to crashes or arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/qt <= 3.3.2 >= 3.3.3
========== There are several unspecified bugs in the QImage class which may cause crashes or allow execution of arbitrary code as the user running the Qt application. These bugs affect the PNG, XPM, BMP, GIF and JPEG image types.
Impact ===== An attac...

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