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gtksee: buffer overflow

Package(s):gtksee CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0444
Created:June 30, 2003 Updated:July 11, 2003
Description: Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the victim loads the file in gtksee.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200307-05 2003-07-11
Debian DSA-337-1 2003-06-29
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