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USN-53-1: imlib vulnerabilities

29 December 2004

imlib vulnerabilities

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Details

Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib. If an
attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious image, he could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user
opening the image.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10
  • imlib1 -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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