Bug 150038

Summary: CAN-2005-0605 XPM buffer overflow
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: xgl-maint
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OS: Linux   
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-01 21:16:22 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #150036 +++

A potential buffer overflow from the use of unsigned integers has been found in
the XPM processing library of xorg.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-03-01 21:18:07 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-21 11:30:55 UTC
setting to moderate severity since only a subset of applications are affected by
this, and many of those do not parse untrusted xpm files.  Applications like the
gimp and others have their own xpm implementations.

Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-30 08:28:55 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-331.html


Comment 8 Josh Bressers 2005-04-06 18:05:05 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-044.html