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gdk-pixbuf: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):gdk-pixbuf gtk2 CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3186 CVE-2005-2976 CVE-2005-2975
Created:November 15, 2005 Updated:March 20, 2006
Description: The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the GNOME GUI desktop environment. A bug was found in the way gdk-pixbuf processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with gdk-pixbuf to execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim.

Ludwig Nussel discovered an integer overflow bug in the way gdk-pixbuf processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with gdk-pixbuf to execute arbitrary code or crash when the file was opened by a victim.

Ludwig Nussel also discovered an infinite-loop denial of service bug in the way gdk-pixbuf processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with gdk-pixbuf to stop responding when the file was opened by a victim.

Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:173274 2006-03-16
Debian DSA-913-1 2005-12-01
Debian DSA-911-1 2005-11-29
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0066 2005-11-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:214 2005-11-18
Ubuntu USN-216-1 2005-11-16
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:065 2005-11-16
Gentoo 200511-14 2005-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1088 2005-11-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1087 2005-11-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1086 2005-11-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1085 2005-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:811-01 2005-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:810-01 2005-11-15

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