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IBM Notes PNG Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 8 May 2013 10:33 Release Date: 8 May 2013 3980 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Notes, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.  The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow when viewing PNG images and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by sending an e-mail containing a specially crafted PNG image.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • IBM Lotus Notes 8.x
  • IBM Notes (formerly IBM Lotus Notes) 9.x

Solutions

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