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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-37">
<title>Pixman: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>A buffer overflow in Pixman might allow remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">pixman</product>
<announced>2016-12-13</announced>
<revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
<bug>561526</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="x11-libs/pixman" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.32.8</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.32.8</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Pixman is a pixel manipulation library.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>In pixman-general, careless computations done with the dest_buffer
pointer may overflow, failing the buffer upper limit check.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Pixman users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-libs/pixman-0.32.8"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-September/002637.html">
Pixman 0.32.8 Release Notes
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T08:11:30Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:59:37Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>