Ubuntu Security Notice USN-27-1
17th November, 2004
libxpm4 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of
libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows
were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release.
Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original
patch was insufficient to address these overflows, and thus the
version of libxpm4 shipped with Warty is still vulnerable to the
original overflows.
These overflows do not allow privilege escalation through the X
server; the overflows are in a client-side library, allowing
arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user
viewing a malicious pixmap.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- libxpm4
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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