Ubuntu Security Notice USN-114-1
3rd May, 2005
kdelibs vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
Details
Bruno Rohee discovered a buffer overflow in the PCX decoder of kimgio.
If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PCX image with
a KDE application, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user opening the image.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- kdelibs
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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