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Gentoo: GLSA-200504-22 Normal: KDE kimgio PCX Handling Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
KDE's inadequate input validation for PNG files may result in possible arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities within the Gentoo ecosystem.
KDE fails to properly validate input when handling PCX images, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KDE kimgio: PCX handling buffer overflow Date: April 22, 2005 Bugs: #88862 ID: 200504-22

Synopsis ======= KDE fails to properly validate input when handling PCX images, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kimgio is the KDE image handler provided by kdelibs.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/kdelibs < 3.3.2-r8 *>= 3.2.3-r9 >= 3.3.2-r8
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