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Gentoo 200812-23 Normal: Imlib2 User-Assisted Code Execution Advisory

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2008
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The Imlib2 buffer overflow vulnerability in Gentoo poses significant risks for code execution from improper input handling, necessitating urgent security measures.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Imlib2.

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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 ======= A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Imlib2.
Background ========= Imlib2 is replacement library from the Enlightenment project for libraries like libXpm.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/imlib2 < 1.4.2-r1 >= 1.4.2-r1
========== Julien Danjou reported a pointer arithmetic error and a heap-based buffer overflow within the load() function of the XPM image loader.
Impact ===== A remote a...

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