CVE-2008-5187

Description (CNA)

The load function in the XPM loader for imlib2 1.4.2, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XPM file that triggers a "pointer arithmetic error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2426.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:019
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1672
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32949
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/5
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32963
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33323
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-683-1
• http://osvdb.org/49970
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32796
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505714#15
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32371
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-23.xml
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3212
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32843
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00858.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00856.html

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