Secure testing team - Aug 2009 - Bug#540470: CVE-2009-2688: Multiple integer overflows

Package: xemacs21
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xemacs21.

CVE-2009-2688[0]:
| Multiple integer overflows in glyphs-eimage.c in XEmacs 21.4.22, when
| running on Windows, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of
| service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the tiff_instantiate
| function processing a crafted TIFF file, (2) the png_instantiate
| function processing a crafted PNG file, and (3) the jpeg_instantiate
| function processing a crafted JPEG file, all which trigger a
| heap-based buffer overflow.  NOTE: the provenance of this information
| is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party
| information.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2688
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2688

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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