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Secunia Advisory SA12429

imlib/imlib2 BMP Image Decoding Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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SA12429

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Release Date

2004-09-08

Last Update

2004-09-28

Popularity

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

DoS
System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Partial Fix

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

imlib 1.x

imlib2 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2004-0802 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2004-0817 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Marcus Meissner has reported a vulnerability in imlib and imlib2, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the decoding of runlength-encoded BMP images. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted BMP image.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA12325

Solution
Fixes are available in the CVS repository, from various Linux distributions, and the Gnome Project.

Provided and/or discovered by
Marcus Meissner

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151034

Other references
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