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Fedora Core 3: 2005-237 Critical Advisory on xloadimage Shell Issues

This update fixes CAN-2005-0638, a problem in the parsing of shell metacharacters in filenames. It also fixes bugs in handling of malformed TIFF and PBM/PNM/PPM issues.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-237 2005-03-18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : xloadimage Version : 4.1 Release : 34.FC3 Summary : An X Window System based image viewer. Description : The xloadimage utility displays images in an X Window System window, loads images into the root window, or writes images into a file. Xloadimage supports many image types (including GIF, TIFF, JPEG, XPM, and XBM). ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: This update fixes CAN-2005-0638, a problem in the parsing of shell metacharacters in filenames. It also fixes bugs in handling of malformed TIFF and PBM/PNM/PPM issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Fri Mar 18 2005 Bill Nottingham - use system libjpeg - fix quoting in filenames (CAN-2005-0638) * Fri Jan 21 2005 Bill Nottingham 4.1-33 - fix bad use of format strings (#70867, #78481 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 73db46740e8466a34ecf35bd1790b49e SRPMS/xloadimage-4.1-34.FC3.src.rpm a18f636c94faf58a8e1effdc807e0607 x86_64/xloadimage-4.1-34.FC3.x86_64.rpm 3997943e250f2a4913a5c63f412b47b4 x86_64/debug/xloadimage-debuginfo-4.1-34.FC3.x86_64.rpm 9c9668258b3b995830f7fe7ef0752f8e i386/xloadimage-4.1-34.FC3.i386.rpm 66e15fea24aaf802193a7f39bc88edbd i386/debug/xloadimage-debuginfo-4.1-34.FC3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Important patch resolves vulnerability in gimp for Ubuntu 20.04, correcting image rendering errors and associated glitches.. xloadimage update, Fedora Core 3, filename parsing, image viewer, security flaw. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 18, 2005 •Critical Fedora