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TITLE:
KDE kdelibs PCX Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14908

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
Bruno Rohee has reported a vulnerability in KDE kdelibs, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the kimgio component
when processing PCX image files. This may be exploited via a
specially crafted image file to execute arbitrary code via an
application linked against the vulnerable library.

The vulnerability has been reported in KDE 3.4.0. Other version may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted images in applications linked against the
vulnerable library.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bruno Rohee

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE bug report:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102328

SUSE advisory:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_kdelibs3.html

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