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Bug 171904

Summary:	CVE-2005-2975 gtk2 XPM DoS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	gtk2	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	reported=20051027,embargo=20051115,impact=important,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-811	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-10-27 17:21:32 UTC

This issue was reported by Ludwig Nussel of Suse.

gtk2 will enter an infinite loop if the number of colors provided is very large,
but not large enough to cause an integer overflow.

Created an attachment (id=120474)
Fix for the large color DoS

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-10-27 17:25:02 UTC

This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-11-15 14:09:19 UTC

Lifting embargo

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-11-15 14:37:49 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-2005-811.html