USN-92-1: LessTif vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the XPM image decoding
functions of the LessTif library. If an attacker tricked a user into
loading a malicious XPM image with an application that uses LessTif,
he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the
user opening the image.

Ubuntu does not contain any server applications using LessTif, so
there is no possibility of privilege escalation.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10

• lesstif1 -
• lesstif2 -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-0605

Related notices

• USN-97-1