Bug 1651585 (CVE-2015-5297) - CVE-2015-5297 pixman: general_composite_rect() integer overflow
Summary: CVE-2015-5297 pixman: general_composite_rect() integer overflow
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-5297
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1265302
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Reported: 2018-11-20 11:53 UTC by Stefan Cornelius
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:46 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: pixman 0.32.8
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An integer overflow issue has been reported in the general_composite_rect() function in pixman prior to version 0.32.8. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause an application using pixman to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
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Last Closed: 2018-11-20 11:54:16 UTC
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Description Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-20 11:53:50 UTC 
An integer overflow issue has been reported in the general_composite_rect() function in pixman prior to version 0.32.8. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause an application using pixman to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Upstream bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92027

Patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=118382
Comment 1 Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-20 11:57:41 UTC 
External References:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92027
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