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TITLE:
mlterm Background Image Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14509

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14509/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
mlterm 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4751/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in mlterm, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in the
handling of image files and may be exploited to execute arbitrary
code via a specially crafted, overly large background image.

Successful exploitation requires that gdk-pixbuf support is enabled.


The vulnerability has been reported in versions 2.5.0 through 2.9.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to 2.9.2 or later.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40891

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-13.xml

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