Gentoo: GLSA-200604-10 Normal: zgv/xzgv Heap Overflow Attack
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April 21, 2006
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
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xzgv and zgv attempt to decode JPEG images within the CMYK/YCCK colour
space incorrectly, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code.
Background
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xzgv and zgv are picture viewing utilities with a thumbnail based file
selector.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-gfx/xzgv < 0.8-r2 >= 0.8-r2
2 media-gfx/zgv < 5.8 >= 5.8
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