5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2005-3178

Published: 07/10/2005 Updated: 19/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 454
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in xloadimage 4.1 and previous versions, and xli, might allow user-assisted malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a long title name in a NIFF file, which triggers the overflow during (1) zoom, (2) reduce, or (3) rotate operations.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis xloadimage security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic A new xloadimage package that fixes bugs in handling malformed tiff andpbm/pnm/ppm images, and in handling metacharacters in file names is nowavailableThis update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red HatSecuri ...
Ariel Berkman discovered several buffer overflows in xloadimage, which are also present in xli, a command line utility for viewing images in X11, and could be exploited via large image titles and cause the execution of arbitrary code For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1170-11woody2 For the stable d ...
Ariel Berkman discovered several buffer overflows in xloadimage, a graphics file viewer for X11, that can be exploited via large image titles and cause the execution of arbitrary code For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 41-10woody2 For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in ...