USN-114-1: kimgio vulnerability
3 May 2005
kimgio vulnerability
Releases
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 5.04
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kdelibs
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.