FreeBSD : xv -- exploitable buffer overflows (fffacc93-16cb-11d9-bc4a-000c41e2cdad)

In a Bugtraq posting, infamous41mdathotpop.com reported : there are at least 5 exploitable buffer and heap overflows in the image handling code. this allows someone to craft a malicious image, trick a user into viewing the file in xv, and upon viewing that image execute arbitrary code under...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-190)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] [DSA-190-1] buffer overflow in Window Maker

Package : wmaker Problem type : buffer overflow Debian-specific: no Al Viro found a problem in the image handling code use in Window Maker, a popular NEXTSTEP like window manager. When creating an image it would allocate a buffer by multiplying the image width and height, but did not check for an...