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<glsa id="200503-15">
<title>X.org: libXpm vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>
A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in
X.org, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">X.org</product>
<announced>March 12, 2005</announced>
<revised>March 12, 2005: 02</revised>
<bug>83598</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="x11-base/xorg-x11" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="rge">6.8.0-r5</unaffected>
<unaffected range="ge">6.8.2-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">6.8.2-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System,
included in X.org.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Chris Gilbert has discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow
cases in libXpm that weren't fixed in previous libXpm versions.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash X.org, potentially allowing
the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All X.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose x11-base/xorg-x11</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0605">CAN-2005-0605</uri>
<uri link="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920">Freedesktop bug</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:19:18 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:11:00 +0000">
SeJo
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:22:24 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>