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CVE-2008-5187

Impact:: Important
Public Date:: 2008-11-14

Bugzilla:: 472576: CVE-2008-5187 imilb2: pointer arithmetic flaw in XPM loader

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The load function in the XPM loader for imlib2 1.4.2, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XPM file that triggers a "pointer arithmetic error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2426.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5187 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of imlib as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Last Modified 2018-05-02T13:30:49+00:00

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