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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
3 May 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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