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USN-114-1: kimgio vulnerability

3 May 2005

kimgio vulnerability

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.04
  • kdelibs -

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

References