USN-683-1: Imlib2 vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• imlib2 -

Details

It was discovered that Imlib2 did not correctly handle certain malformed
XPM images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image
with an application that uses Imlib2, an attacker could cause a denial of
service and possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

• libimlib2 - 1.4.0-1.1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• libimlib2 - 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• libimlib2 - 1.3.0.0debian1-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libimlib2 - 1.2.1-2ubuntu0.3

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use Imlib2 to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-5187