vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3075-1 (CVE-2016-4024): Imlib2 vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 13, 2016
Added
Sep 9, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in imlib2 before 1.4.9 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large dimensions in an image, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap memory write operation.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libimlib2
Title
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