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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2287-1 Moderate: gdk-pixbuf DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2018
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A recent patch tackles a notable vulnerability concerning gdk-pixbuf within openSUSE Leap 42.3, promoting improved system protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for gdk-pixbuf fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2015-4491: Fix integer multiplication overflow that allows for DoS

or potentially RCE (bsc#1053417).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS gdk-pixbuf openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-846=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

gdk-pixbuf-debugsource-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-devel-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-devel-debuginfo-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-debuginfo-2.34.0-19.1

libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-2.34.0-19.1

libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.34.0-19.1

typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0-2.34.0-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

gdk-pixbuf-lang-2.34.0-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

gdk-pixbuf-devel-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-debuginfo-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-debuginfo-32bit-2.34.0-19.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4491.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1053417

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2287-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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