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CVE-2004-0914

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 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 products

• gentoo Linux: all versions
• Lesstif: 0.93, 0.93.12, 0.93.18, 0.93.34, 0.93.36, 0.93.40 (+3)
• RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0
• Suse Linux: 1.0, 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 (+1)
• X.Org X11R6: 6.7.0, 6.8, 6.8.1
• Xfree86 Project X11R6: 3.3, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.5, 3.3.6 (+10)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-537.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/13224/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-607
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-28.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-06.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-07.xml
• http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/106877/102/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:137
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00001.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-610.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-004.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11694

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