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Gentoo: 200409-34 Normal: Integer And Stack Overflows In LibXpm

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libXpm, the X Pixmap library that is a part of the X Window System, contains multiple stack and integer overflows that may allow a carefully-crafted XPM file to crash applications ...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-34 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: X.org, XFree86: Integer and stack overflows in libXpm Date: September 27, 2004 Bugs: #64152 ID: 200409-34

Synopsis ======= libXpm, the X Pixmap library that is a part of the X Window System, contains multiple stack and integer overflows that may allow a carefully-crafted XPM file to crash applications linked against libXpm, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= XFree86 and X.org are both implementations of the X Window System.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-base/xorg-x11 < 6.7.0-r2 *>= 6.7.0-r2 ...

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security advisory code execution integer overflow xfree86 xorg normal severity libxpm overflow

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security advisory code execution integer overflow xfree86 xorg normal severity libxpm overflow

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