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CVE-2004-0914

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2005-01-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm for 6.8.1 and earlier, as used in XFree86 and other packages, include (1) multiple integer overflows, (2) out-of-bounds memory accesses, (3) directory traversal, (4) shell metacharacter, (5) endless loops, and (6) memory leaks, which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash), or execute arbitrary code via a certain XPM image file. NOTE: it is highly likely that this candidate will be SPLIT into other candidates in the future, per CVE's content decisions.

Affected Platforms

Gentoo LinuxX.Org X11R6Xfree86 Project X11R6Redhat Fedora CoreLesstif LesstifSuse Suse Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References