USN-934-1: Netpbm vulnerability

29 April 2010

Netpbm vulnerability

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Packages

Details

Marc Schoenefeld discovered a buffer overflow in Netpbm when loading
certain images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted XPM image, a remote attacker could crash Netpbm. The
default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.04

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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