CVE-2005-3186

Summary

CVECVE-2005-3186
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-11-18 06:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the GTK+ gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ 2.4.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XPM file with a number of colors that causes insufficient memory to be allocated, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gdkpixbuf All All All All
Application Gtk Gtk 2.4.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
404 Page Not Found | SUSE af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Secunia - Advisories - GTK+ GdkPixbuf XPM Image Rendering Library Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
GDK-Pixbuf/GTK XPM Images Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.8/SCOSA-2006.8.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
Accenture | Let there be change af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.idefense.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for gtk2-engines-pixbuf / libgdk-pixbuf2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - gdk-pixbuf Bugs in Processing XPM Images Let Remote Users Deny Service or Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-911-1 gtk+2.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for gtk+/gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for gtk2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CXSecurity - IDS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Secunia - Advisories - Avaya Products GdkPixbuf XPM Image Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for gtk2/gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for gtk+2.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for gtk2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
usn/usn-216-1 - Ubuntu Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Secunia - Advisories - OpenServer update for gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GTK+ 2, GdkPixbuf: Multiple XPM decoding vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-229.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-913-1 gdk-pixbuf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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