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Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 06:37:11 CST

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TITLE:
xli Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14459

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14459/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
xli 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4732/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in xli, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An input validation error in the handling of compressed images can
be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands via a specially
crafted filename containing shell meta characters.

2) A boundary error in the "facesLoad()" function when handling Faces
Project images can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and
potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted image.

3) Some errors in the validation of image properties may potentially
be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

2) Originally discovered by:
* zen-parse

Reported in xli by:
* Rob Holland, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

3) Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml

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