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Gentoo GLSA-200510-26 Normal: XLI and Xloadimage Critical Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2005
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The Gentoo GLSA 200510-28 highlights a critical vulnerability in VLC media player, which could allow an attacker to execute unauthorized commands.
XLI and Xloadimage contain a vulnerability which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: XLI, Xloadimage: Buffer overflow Date: October 30, 2005 Bugs: #108365 ID: 200510-26

Synopsis ======= XLI and Xloadimage contain a vulnerability which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= XLI and Xloadimage are X11 image manipulation utilities.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/xli < 1.17.0-r2 >= 1.17.0-r2 2 media-gfx/xloadimage < 4.1-r4 >= 4.1-r4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of t...

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