Gentoo: 200307-05 Critical: gtksee Local Exploit Threat
gentoo
July 11, 2003
Attackers can use carefully crafted png pictures to execute arbitrarycommands using a buffer overflow in when viewed in gtksee.
Summary
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Attackers can use carefully crafted png pictures to execute arbitrary commands using a buffer overflow in when viewed in gtksee.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running media-gfx/gtksee upgrade to gtksee-0.5.2 as follows
emerge sync emerge gtksee emerge clean
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PACKAGE : gtksee
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-07-11 14:44 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =gtksee-0.5.2
CVE : CAN-2003-0444
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