libxpm vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Chris Gilbert discovered a buffer overflow in the XPM library shipped
with XFree86. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious
XPM image with an application that uses libxpm, he could exploit this
to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the
image.

These overflows do not allow privilege escalation through the X
server; the overflows are in a client-side library.