Gentoo 200812-23 Normal: Imlib2 User-Assisted Code Execution Advisory
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December 23, 2008
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Imlib2.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-23
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Imlib2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: December 23, 2008
Bugs: #248057
ID: 200812-23
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Imlib2.
Background
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Imlib2 is replacement library from the Enlightenment project for
libraries like libXpm.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/imlib2 < 1.4.2-r1 >= 1.4.2-r1
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Julien Danjou reported a pointer arithmetic error and a heap-based
buffer overflow within the load() function of the XPM image loader.
Impact
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A remote a...
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