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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-368-1 October 23, 2006 qt-x11-free vulnerability CVE-2006-4811 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.04: libqt3c102 3:3.3.3-7ubuntu3.1 libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 5.10: libqt3-mt 3:3.3.4-8ubuntu5.1 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-1ubuntu6.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your Desktop session to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: An integer overflow was discovered in Qt's image loader. By processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses this library (like Konqueror), a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges.