National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0687
Original release date:10/20/2004
Last revised:10/25/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) xpmParseColors in parse.c, (2) ParseAndPutPixels in create.c, and (3) ParsePixels in parse.c for libXpm before 6.8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed XPM image file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#882750
Name: VU#882750
US-CERT Technical Alert: TA05-136A
Name: TA05-136A
External Source: BID
Name: 11196
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: libxpm-multiple-stack-bo(17414)
Type: Advisory
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT4848
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:004
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:537
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2004:034
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200502-07
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200409-34
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-560
External Source: MISC
Name: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2004-003.txt
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040915 CESA-2004-004: libXpm
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-05-03
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.0/patches/README.xorg-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-27-1
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT4848
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA-2006:152803
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:098
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1914
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 57653
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20235
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLA-2005:924