Søren Sandmann discovered a bug in memory allocation for pixmap images, that can cause a crash of the X server or to execute arbitrary code. The update for the old stable distribution (woody) also contains a different correction for multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm (DSA 607, CAN-2004-0914, Bug#309143), since the old fix contained a regression. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-16woody7. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 of X.Org. We recommend that you upgrade your xfree86 and xorg packages.
Søren Sandmann discovered a bug in memory allocation for pixmap images, that can cause a crash of the X server or to execute arbitrary code.
The update for the old stable distribution (woody) also contains a different correction for multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm (DSA 607, CAN-2004-0914, Bug#309143), since the old fix contained a regression.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-16woody7.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 of X.Org.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfree86 and xorg packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.