From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 09:36:25 CDT

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TITLE:
xv Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12352

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12352/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
xv 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/2011/

DESCRIPTION:
infamous41md has reported multiple vulnerabilities in xv, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the
processing of images and can be exploited to cause buffer overflows
by tricking users into viewing specially crafted images.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code on a
user's system.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 3.10a. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
infamous41md

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