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Gentoo GLSA-200707-06 Normal Severity: XnView Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2007
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Gentoo security notice regarding GIMP highlights a critical heap overflow vulnerability that could permit arbitrary code execution through PPM files.
XnView is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow and possible remote code execution when handling XPM image files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: XnView: Stack-based buffer overflow Date: July 11, 2007 Bugs: #175670 ID: 200707-06

Synopsis ======= XnView is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow and possible remote code execution when handling XPM image files.
Background ========= XnView is software to view and convert graphics files. XPixMap (XPM) is a simple ascii-based graphics format.
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