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Gentoo: 200410-09 Normal: LessTif Integer Overflow and Remote Threat

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Gentoo GLSA 202110-12 examines security flaws in LessTif's libXmu library, emphasizing the potential for remote code execution threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: LessTif: Integer and stack overflows in libXpm Date: October 09, 2004 Bugs: #66647 ID: 200410-09

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
Background ========= LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is the standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-libs/lesstif < 0.93.97 >= 0.93.97
========== Chris Evans has discovered various integer and stack overflows in libXpm, which is...

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