Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in gdk-pixbuf, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
gdk-pixbuf "read_bitmap_file_data()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49125
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-05-15
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in gdk-pixbuf, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the
library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within
the "read_bitmap_file_data()" function (io-xbm.c) when parsing the
width and height dimensions, which can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted XBM file.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sergey Nizovtsev in an Ubuntu bug.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/681150
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672811
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