CVE-2008-5187

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The load function in the XPM loader for imlib2 1.4.2, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XPM file that triggers a "pointer arithmetic error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2426.

Affected products

Enlightenment Imlib2: 1.4.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505714#15
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/49970
http://secunia.com/advisories/32796
http://secunia.com/advisories/32843
http://secunia.com/advisories/32949
http://secunia.com/advisories/32963
http://secunia.com/advisories/33323
http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-23.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1672
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:019

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