Security Advisory SA39354 - imlib2 "IMAGE_DIMENSIONS_OK()" Logic Error

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Secunia Advisory SA39354

imlib2 "IMAGE_DIMENSIONS_OK()" Logic Error

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SA39354

Release Date

2010-04-21

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Moderately critical

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Software:

imlib2 1.x

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CVE-2010-0991 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in imlib2, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a logic error within the "IMAGE_DIMENSIONS_OK()" macro in src/lib/image.h. This can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via e.g. specially crafted ARGB, XPM, and BMP image files.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.3. Previous versions are not affected.

Solution
Fixed in the SVN repository.

Provided and/or discovered by
Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research

Original Advisory
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-54/

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