TITLE:
Xloadimage NIFF Image Title Handling Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17087

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17087/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Xloadimage 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/4733/

DESCRIPTION:
Ariel Berkman has reported a vulnerability in xloadimage, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in handling the
title of a NIFF image when performing zoom, reduce, or rotate
functions. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution via a malicious NIFF
image with an overly long title.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.1. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict use to only trusted NIFF images.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ariel Berkman

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332524

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