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HIGH

security flaw

Published Nov 18, 2005

Description

Integer overflow in the GTK+ gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ 2.4.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XPM file with a number of colors that causes insufficient memory to be allocated, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 18, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Oct 12, 2005
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Nov 3, 2005