CVE-2008-5187 (GCVE-0-2008-5187)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-21 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
18 references
Date Public
2008-11-20 00:00
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"title": "imilb2: pointer arithmetic flaw in XPM loader",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-5187.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Nomenclature
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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