gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200504-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200504-22">
  <title>KDE kimgio: PCX handling buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    KDE fails to properly validate input when handling PCX images, potentially
    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">KDE</product>
  <announced>April 22, 2005</announced>
  <revised>April 22, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>88862</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">3.2.3-r9</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">3.3.2-r8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.2-r8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
    Unix-like Operating Systems. kimgio is the KDE image handler provided
    by kdelibs.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    kimgio fails to properly validate input when handling PCX files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to load a specially-crafted PCX image in a KDE
    application, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1046">CAN-2005-1046</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050421-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: kimgio input validation errors</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:44:43 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:51:44 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>