EUVD-2008-6049

Malware in sbrugna...

imlib2: Buffer overflows in image decoding

Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several buffer overflows found in the libXpm library see...

USN-55-1: imlib2 vulnerabilities

Recently, Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib which were fixed in USN-53-1. It was found that imlib2 was vulnerable to similar issues. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious XPM or BMP image, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context o...