CVE-2008-5187 (GCVE-0-2008-5187)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-21 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2008-11-20 00:00
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}



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