A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
kdelibs
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Bruno Rohee discovered a buffer overflow in the PCX decoder of kimgio. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PCX image with a KDE application, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the image.