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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-14 Critical: GIMP Memory Corruption Exploit

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2005
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The Gentoo security alert GLSA 202311-15 reveals a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Inkscape. All users must urgently upgrade their systems
A vulnerability has been identified that allows a specially crafted SVG file to exploit a buffer overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code when opened

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Inkscape: Buffer overflow Date: November 28, 2005 Bugs: #109993 ID: 200511-22

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been identified that allows a specially crafted SVG file to exploit a buffer overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.
Background ========= Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/inkscape < 0.43 >= 0.43
========== Joxean Koret has discovered that Inkscape incorrectly allocates memory w...

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