[ GLSA 200502-07 ] OpenMotif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: OpenMotif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm (GLSA 200502-07)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: February 07, 2005
Updated: February 25, 2005
Bug(s): #78111
ID: 200502-07

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included in OpenMotif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.

Background

OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications.

Affected Packages

Package: x11-libs/openmotif
Vulnerable: < 2.2.3-r1
Unaffected: >= 2.2.3-r1
Unaffected: >= 2.1.30-r7 < 2.1.31
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access or directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm that is shipped as a part of the X Window System (see GLSA 200409-34 and 200411-28). OpenMotif, an application that includes this library, suffers from the same issues.

Impact

A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash applications making use of the OpenMotif toolkit, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All OpenMotif users should upgrade to the latest version: