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<glsa id="200503-15">
  <title>X.org: libXpm vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in
    X.org, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">X.org</product>
  <announced>2005-03-12</announced>
  <revised count="02">2005-03-12</revised>
  <bug>83598</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-base/xorg-x11" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">6.8.0-r5</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">6.8.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.8.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System,
    included in X.org.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Chris Gilbert has discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow
    cases in libXpm that weren't fixed in previous libXpm versions.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash X.org, potentially allowing
    the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
    the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All X.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose x11-base/xorg-x11</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0605">CAN-2005-0605</uri>
    <uri link="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920">Freedesktop bug</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-03-06T13:19:18Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-03-07T11:11:00Z">
    SeJo
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-03-11T13:22:24Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>
