Security bugfix for IMLIB
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Package: imlib
Release: 20020402
Obsoletes: none
TIFF
, PNG
, JPEG
or GIF
had not been compiled into imlib
, it used to call the external NetPBM
tools as fallback, which is known to be unsafe. Imlib
also had bugs in its malloc()
handling.The support for external helpers has been removed and the
mallocs
were checked for possible overflows.
rpm -Uvh imlib.rpm
You should stop all running applications that were linked against
imlib
and start them again. This is best done by switching tosingle-user mode and switching back:
- Switch to single-user mode:
init 1
- Switch back to your usual runlevel (3 or 5)
init 3
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