metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-06.xml

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<glsa id="200502-06">
  <title>LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm, which is included
    in LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">lesstif</product>
  <announced>February 06, 2005</announced>
  <revised>February 06, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>78483</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-libs/lesstif" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.94.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.94.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user
    interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of
    bounds memory access and directory traversals, have been discovered in
    libXpm, which is shipped as a part of the X Window System. LessTif, an
    application that includes libXpm, suffers from the same issues.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash applications making use
    of the LessTif toolkit, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary
    code with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All LessTif users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=x11-libs/lesstif-0.94.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0914">CAN-2004-0914</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.lesstif.org/ReleaseNotes.html">LessTif Release Notes</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed,  2 Feb 2005 16:13:30 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun,  6 Feb 2005 17:18:21 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>