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TITLE:
Imager 8Bit BMP File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25038

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25038/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Imager 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/9252/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Imager, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the
library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
processing of 8Bit BMP compressed files. This can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into
opening a specially crafted BMP file with an application using the
library.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.57.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.57.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://imager.perl.org/a/65.html

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