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TITLE:
GEGL PPM Image Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51114

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-06

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in GEGL, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in PPM
image handler (operations/external/ppm-load.c) and can be exploited
to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted image
dimensions.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.2.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the source code repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Murray McAllister, Red Hat Security Response Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856300

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