Author: JT Smith
From LinuxSecurity.com: “These updated packages fix a buffer overflow in the
faces reader. This is normally not a security problem; however, xloadimage
is called by the ‘plugger’ program from inside Netscape to handle some
image types. Hence, a remote site could cause arbitrary code to be executed as
the user running Netscape. It is recommended that users of Netscape
and plugger update to the fixed xloadimage packages.”
faces reader. This is normally not a security problem; however, xloadimage
is called by the ‘plugger’ program from inside Netscape to handle some
image types. Hence, a remote site could cause arbitrary code to be executed as
the user running Netscape. It is recommended that users of Netscape
and plugger update to the fixed xloadimage packages.”
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