Security Advisory SA10965 - GdkPixbuf BMP Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA10965

GdkPixbuf BMP Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA10965

Release Date

2004-03-10

Last Update

2005-08-24

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

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Software:

GdkPixbuf 0.x

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CVE-2004-0111 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in GdkPixbuf, which can be exploited by malicious people to crash certain applications on a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a handling error when displaying BMP images. This can be exploited by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted BMP image with an extremely large value in the "bfOffBits" field of the BMP file header.

The vulnerability affects versions prior to 0.20.

Solution
Update to version 0.20 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Secunia Research

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Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-3/advisory/

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