A number of bugs in libXpm, a library used for manipulating pixmaps, could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a Linux system, X.Org said in an advisory last week. The bugs, including integer overflows, out-of-bounds memory accesses, insecure path traversal and an endless loop, could be exploited by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted pixmap file with one of the many applications that rely on libXpm, X.Org said.

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