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Gentoo Linux OpenMotif GLSA 200503-08 Moderate libXpm Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2005
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A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in OpenMotif and LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenMotif, LessTif: New libXpm buffer overflows Date: March 04, 2005 Bugs: #83655, #83656 ID: 200503-08

Synopsis ======= A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in OpenMotif and LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
Background ========= LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. OpenMotif also provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications.
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