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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200503-15">
+ <title>X.org: libXpm vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in
+ X.org, that can potentially lead to remote code execution.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">X.org</product>
+ <announced>2005-03-12</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2005-03-12</revised>
+ <bug>83598</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="x11-base/xorg-x11" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="rge">6.8.0-r5</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="ge">6.8.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">6.8.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System,
+ included in X.org.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Chris Gilbert has discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow
+ cases in libXpm that weren't fixed in previous libXpm versions.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash X.org, 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 X.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose x11-base/xorg-x11</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0605">CAN-2005-0605</uri>
+ <uri link="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920">Freedesktop bug</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-03-06T13:19:18Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-03-07T11:11:00Z">
+ SeJo
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-03-11T13:22:24Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>