GLSA 200504-22: KDE kimgio: PCX handling buffer overflow

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Severity:	normal
Title:	KDE kimgio: PCX handling buffer overflow
Date:	04/22/2005
Bugs:	#88862
ID:	200504-22

Synopsis

KDE fails to properly validate input when handling PCX images, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kimgio is the KDE image handler provided by kdelibs.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
kde-base/kdelibs	< 3.3.2-r8	>= 3.2.3-r9	All supported architectures

Description

kimgio fails to properly validate input when handling PCX files.

Impact

By enticing a user to load a specially-crafted PCX image in a KDE application, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-22.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.