Bug 463251 (CVE-2008-4069)

Summary: CVE-2008-4069 Mozilla XBM decoder information disclosure
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4069
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Bug Blocks: 460512, 460513, 460518, 460519, 460520    

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-09-23 18:39:38 UTC
From MFSA 2008-45:
Security researcher Billy Hoffman discovered a bug in the XBM decoder that
allowed random small chunks of uninitialized memory to be read. The
severity of this bug was low and did not appear to cause any memory
corruption.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-09-24 01:00:11 UTC
This is now public

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 23:41:14 UTC
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2008:0882)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2008:0882)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2008:0882)