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Debian: DSA-3379-1 Urgent: Gdk-Pixbuf Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2015
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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the gdk-pixbuf library necessitate immediate patches for Debian systems.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation
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Summary

CVE-2015-7673

Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of TGA
images which may result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial
of service (process crash) if a malformed image is opened.

CVE-2015-7674

Gustavo Grieco discovered an integer overflow flaw in the processing
of GIF images which may result in the execution of arbitrary code or
denial of service (process crash) if a malformed image is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.31.1-2+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.32.1-1 or earlier.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.32.1-1 or earlier.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequent...

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Package: gdk-pixbuf
CVE ID: CVE-2015-7673 CVE-2015-7674

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