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Secunia Advisory SA10965

GdkPixbuf BMP Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA10965
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Release Date 2004-03-10
Last Update 2005-08-24
   
Popularity 8,190 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
GdkPixbuf 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0111 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

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

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