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Gentoo: 200412-03 Moderate: Imlib Buffer Overflow Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Critical vulnerability discovered in Gentoo's imlib library exposes users to arbitrary code execution risks, necessitating urgent software updates.
Multiple overflows have been found in the imlib library image decoding routines, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: imlib: Buffer overflows in image decoding Date: December 06, 2004 Bugs: #72681 ID: 200412-03

Synopsis ======= Multiple overflows have been found in the imlib library image decoding routines, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= imlib is an advanced replacement library for image manipulation libraries like libXpm. It is called by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to help in displaying images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/imlib <= 1.9.14-r2 >= 1.9.14-r3
========== Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several o...

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