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Gentoo: GLSA-200608-17 Normal: Libwmf Memory Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Enhance libwmf to address buffer overflow vulnerability allowing unauthorized code execution on Gentoo platforms.
libwmf is vulnerable to an integer overflow potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libwmf: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: August 10, 2006 Bugs: #139325 ID: 200608-17

Synopsis ======= libwmf is vulnerable to an integer overflow potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libwmf is a library for reading and converting vector images in Microsoft's native Windows Metafile Format (WMF).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libwmf < 0.2.8.4 >= 0.2.8.4
========== infamous41md discovered that libwmf fails to do proper bounds checking on the MaxRecordSize variable in the WMF file header. Th...

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