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xpcd: buffer overflow

Package(s):

xpcd

CVE #(s):

CAN-2004-0402

Created:

May 24, 2004

Updated:

June 1, 2004

Description:

Jaguar discovered a vulnerability in one component of xpcd, a PhotoCD viewer. xpcd-svga, part of xpcd which uses svgalib to display graphics on the console, would copy user-supplied data of arbitrary length into a fixed-size buffer in the pcd_open function.

Alerts:

Mandrake	MDKSA-2004:053	2004-06-01
Debian	DSA-508-1	2004-05-22

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