Info

Last Modified

about 1 year ago

Percent Complete

10%

Disclosure

Nov 20, 2008

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

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Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-5187 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 32796 32843 32949 32963 33323 33568
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505714#15
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubu...ty-announce/2008-December/000794.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00264.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-23.xml
Other Advisory URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/5
Mail List Post: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00856.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00858.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-11-21 | Disagree?

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