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MDKSA-2004:111: wxGTK2

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the wxGTK2 package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDKSA-2004:111 (wxGTK2).

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff package

wxGTK2 uses a libtiff code tree, so it may have the same
vulnerabilities:
Chris Evans discovered several problems in the RLE (run length
encoding) decoders that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2004-0803)
Matthias Clasen discovered a division by zero through an integer
overflow. (CVE-2004-0804)
Dmitry V. Levin discovered several integer overflows that caused
malloc issues which can result to either plain crash or memory
corruption. (CVE-2004-0886)

Solution : http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:111
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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