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- From: Thomas Houssin <thomas.houssin AT gmail.com>
- To: sm-security AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [SM-Security] libXpm vulnerabilities
- Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 06:19:35 +0200
Thomas Houssin wrote:
> A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm. It may allow
> attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative bitmap_unit value
> that leads to a buffer overflow :
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0605
>
> Updated packages for X.org and lesstif are now in grimoires.
>
Several vulnerabilities fixed in openmotif too, in devel and test. It
will be integrated to stable if we don't have any bug report.
--
Thomas Houssin
Security Team Lead : Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org
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