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ELSA-2012-1455 Moderate: Oracle Linux gegl security update

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ELSA-2012-1455 Moderate: Oracle Linux gegl security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/12/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/12/2012
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Multiple integer overflows in operations/external/ppm-load.c in GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) 0.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large (1) width or (2) height value in a Portable Pixel Map (ppm) image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gegl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gegl-devel

References

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