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Ubuntu: USN-5988-1 (CVE-2019-5087): Xcftools vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5988-1 (CVE-2019-5087): Xcftools vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/21/2019
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/10/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the flattenIncrementally function in the xcf2png and xcf2pnm binaries of xcftools 1.0.7. An integer overflow can occur while calculating the row's allocation size, that could be exploited to corrupt memory and eventually execute arbitrary code. In order to trigger this vulnerability, a victim would need to open a specially crafted XCF file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-xcftools

References

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