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CVE-2004-0687

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) xpmParseColors in parse.c, (2) ParseAndPutPixels in create.c, and (3) ParsePixels in parse.c for libXpm before 6.8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed XPM image file.

Affected products

• OpenBSD: 3.4, 3.5
• Suse Linux: 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1
• X.Org X11R6: 6.7.0, 6.8
• Xfree86 Project X11R6: 3.3.6, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2.11, 4.0.3, 4.1.0 (+5)

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000924
• http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.0/patches/README.xorg-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109530851323415&w=2
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170620/Solaris-10-dtprintinfo-libXm-libXpm-Security-Issues.html
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2004-003.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20235
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57653-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-560
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-34.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-07.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/882750

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