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EOG: vulnerability in Eye of GNOME

Package(s):EOG CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0165
Created:April 3, 2003 Updated:April 16, 2003
Description: A vulnerability was found in EOG version 2.2.0 and earlier. A carefully crafted filename passed to the program could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. An attacker could exploit this because various packages (Mutt, for example) make use of EOG for image viewing.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:048 2003-04-16
Red Hat RHSA-2003:128-01 2003-04-03

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