CVE-2008-5187 Information

Description

The load function in the XPM loader for imlib2 1.4.2 and possibly other versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XPM file that triggers a \pointer arithmetic error\ and a heap-based buffer overflow a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2426.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=50571415 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html http://osvdb.org/49970 http://secunia.com/advisories/32796 http://secunia.com/advisories/32843 http://secunia.com/advisories/32949 http://secunia.com/advisories/32963 http://secunia.com/advisories/33323 http://secunia.com/advisories/33568 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-23.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1672 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:019 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32371 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-683-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3212 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00856.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00858.html