A new vulnerability was identified in KDE Desktop, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. The flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in kdelibs when handling specially crafted "PCX" images, which may be exploited to crash an application and potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed. See : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-0331
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Bruno Rohee
ChangeLog
2005-04-26 : Initial release
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