Bug 150036 - CAN-2005-0605 XPM buffer overflow
Summary: CAN-2005-0605 XPM buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
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Blocks: CVE-2005-0605
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-01 20:53 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2008-01-28 16:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-08 15:33:57 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:198 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: xorg-x11 security update 2005-06-08 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-01 20:53:44 UTC 
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 Mike A. Harris 2005-03-07 01:05:43 UTC 
Adding to RHEL4U2 tracker
Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-21 11:32:20 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 6 Tim Powers 2005-06-08 15:33:57 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-2005-198.html
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