A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
imlib1
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.9.14-16ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious image, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user opening the image.