Security Advisory

CVE-2004-0914

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-12-15 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:31:48
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm for 6.8.1 and earlier, as used in XFree86 and other packages, include (1) multiple integer overflows, (2) out-of-bounds memory accesses, (3) directory traversal, (4) shell metacharacter, (5) endless loops, and (6) memory leaks, which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash), or execute arbitrary code via a certain XPM image file. NOTE: it is highly likely that this candidate will be SPLIT into other candidates in the future, per CVE's content decisions.