Vigil@nce - Pixman: integer overflow
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 23/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can generate an integer overflow of Pixman, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Pixman-integer-overflow-27867