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Gentoo: GLSA-200409-07 Critical: xv Image Handling Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2004
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Numerous critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities identified in the xv image processing module. Immediate update advised to maintain system integrity.
xv contains multiple exploitable buffer overflows in the image handling code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-07
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: xv: Buffer overflows in image handling
      Date: September 03, 2004
      Bugs: #61619
        ID: 200409-07


Synopsis
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xv contains multiple exploitable buffer overflows in the image handling
code.

Background
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xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility.

Affected packages
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     Package       /  Vulnerable  /                         Unaffected
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  1  media-gfx/xv     < 3.10a-r7                           >= 3.10a-r7

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Multiple buffer overflow and integer handling vulnerabilities have been
discovered in xv's image processing code. These vulnerabilities have
been found in the xv...
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