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GdkPixbuf Multiple Image Decoding Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA12542
Release Date: 2004-09-16
Last Update: 2004-10-01
Popularity: 16,441 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GdkPixbuf 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0753
CVE-2004-0782
CVE-2004-0783
CVE-2004-0788


Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in GdkPixBuf, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A variant of a recently disclosed vulnerability in Qt exists within the BMP image processing functionality. This can be exploited to make an affected application enter an infinite loop when a specially crafted BMP image is processed.

2) An input validation error within the "pixbuf_create_from_xpm()" function when decoding XPM images can be exploited to cause an integer overflow when a specially crafted XPM image is processed.

Successful exploitation may in turn result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which potentially allows execution of arbitrary code.

3) A boundary error within the "xpm_extract_color()" function when decoding XPM images can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted XPM image is processed.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

4) An input validation error within the ICO image decoding functionality can be exploited to cause an integer overflow when a specially crafted ICO image is processed.

Successful exploitation causes an affected application to crash.

Solution:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which addresses the vulnerabilities.

However, updates have been issued by various Linux vendors.

Provided and/or discovered by:
2-4) Chris Evans

Changelog:
2004-10-01: Added links to US-CERT vulnerability notes. Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
Chris Evans:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2004-005.txt

GNOME Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150601

Other References:
US-CERT VU#369358:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/369358

US-CERT VU#729894:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/729894

US-CERT VU#577654:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/577654

US-CERT VU#825374:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/825374


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