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Gentoo: GLSA-200604-10 Normal: zgv/xzgv Heap Overflow Attack

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2006
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Buffer overflow in wxyz and abcde could enable remote code execution on Fedora. Urgent patches necessary for users.
xzgv and zgv attempt to decode JPEG images within the CMYK/YCCK colour space incorrectly, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: zgv, xzgv: Heap overflow Date: April 21, 2006 Bugs: #127008 ID: 200604-10

Synopsis ======= xzgv and zgv attempt to decode JPEG images within the CMYK/YCCK colour space incorrectly, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= xzgv and zgv are picture viewing utilities with a thumbnail based file selector.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/xzgv < 0.8-r2 >= 0.8-r2 2 media-gfx/zgv < 5.8 >= 5.8 ----------------------------------------------------...

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