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Bug 218848 (CVE-2008-1670)

Summary: kde-base/konqueror-4.* KHTML 4 PNG Loader Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-1670)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: trivial CC: kde
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
Whiteboard: ~2 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments:
Description Flags
post-kde-4.0.3-khtml.diff none

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-22 07:39:26 UTC
The new progressive PNG Image loader in KHTML of KDE 4.0 and newer
can be tricked into overrunning a heap allocated memory buffer
by loading a specially encoded image.

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156623


Please note that this issue is under embargo until 2008-04-26. *Do not commit* anything to CVS and keep any information confidential until that date.
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-22 07:40:13 UTC
Created attachment 150574 [details, diff]
post-kde-4.0.3-khtml.diff
Comment 2 Ingmar Vanhassel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 14:11:35 UTC
Committed.
Comment 3 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-09 14:30:53 UTC
Thanks(In reply to comment #2)
> Committed.
> 

Thanks.