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CVE-2004-0914

HIGH · 10.0 CVSS v2.0 Published 2005-01-10
Patch available
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
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.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
LinuxOperating system
Affected:all versions
Fedora CoreOperating system
Affected:= core_2.0= core_3.0
LesstifApplication
Affected:= 0.93= 0.93.12= 0.93.18= 0.93.34= 0.93.36= 0.93.40= 0.93.91= 0.93.94= 0.93.96
X11r6Application
Affected:= 6.7.0= 6.8= 6.8.1
X11r6Application
Affected:= 3.3= 3.3.2= 3.3.3= 3.3.4= 3.3.5= 3.3.6= 4.0= 4.0.1= 4.0.2.11= 4.0.3= 4.1.0= 4.1.11
Suse LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 1.0= 8= 8.1= 8.2= 9.0= 9.1= 9.2

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Patch available Apply the vendor patch
Vendor patch www.debian.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

X11R6.8.2 or later (libXpm 6.8.2 or later); or distribution-specific patched packages (e.g., Fedora Core 2/3 updates, Debian packages from DSA-607)

  1. 1. Identify the libXpm library version currently installed (e.g., rpm -q libXpm or dpkg -l libxpm)
  2. 2. For Fedora Core systems, run 'yum update' or 'up2date' to obtain patched packages from Fedora updates
  3. 3. For Debian/Ubuntu systems, run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' to apply Debian DSA-607 patches
  4. 4. For Suse Linux, apply patches via YaST or download from Suse security updates
  5. 5. For X11R6 standalone, upgrade to X11R6.8.2 or later which contains the fixed libXpm
  6. 6. Restart any X11-dependent applications or services after updating the library
  7. 7. Verify the fix by checking the new libXpm version and testing XPM image parsing
Caveat Minimal - this is a security-only fix in the X11 pixmap library with no API/ABI changes expected for most applications

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