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Gentoo: GLSA-200411-28 Normal: libXpm Denial Of Service & Code Exec

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
libXpm security flaws can lead to system crashes and execution of unauthorized code on Gentoo platforms. Please update immediately.
libXpm contains several vulnerabilities that could lead to a Denial of Service and arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-28 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: X.Org, XFree86: libXpm vulnerabilities Date: November 19, 2004 Bugs: #68544 ID: 200411-28

Synopsis ======= libXpm contains several vulnerabilities that could lead to a Denial of Service and arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in both X.Org and XFree86.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-base/xorg-x11 < 6.8.0-r3 >= 6.8.0-r3 *>= 6.7.0-r3 2 x11-base/xfree < 4.3.0-r8 ...

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