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GLSA-200502-06 : LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

critical Nessus Plugin ID 16443

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-06 (LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm)

 Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access and directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm, which is shipped as a part of the X Window System. LessTif, an application that includes libXpm, suffers from the same issues.
 Impact :

 A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash applications making use of the LessTif toolkit, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All LessTif users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=x11-libs/lesstif-0.94.0'

See Also

http://www.lesstif.org/ReleaseNotes.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200502-06

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 16443

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200502-06.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:lesstif, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0914

GLSA: 200502-06