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Ubuntu 14.04: USN-1990-1 High: GIMP Image Processing Vulnerability

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Explore the ways Ubuntu mitigates significant Mesa security flaws to avert operational failures and unapproved code execution.
Mesa could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

Mesa could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received

specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- mesa: free implementation of the EGL API

- mesa-lts-quantal: free implementation of the EGL API

Details:

It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain memory

calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to

crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1872)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain memory

calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to

crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1993)

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libegl1-mesa                    9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libgbm1                         9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libgl1-mesa-dri                 9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libgl1-mesa-glx                 9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libglapi-mesa                   9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libgles1-mesa                   9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libgles2-mesa                   9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libopenvg1-mesa                 9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libosmesa6                      9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
  libxatracker1                   9.1.3-0ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libegl1-mesa                    9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libgbm1                         9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libgl1-mesa-dri                 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libgl1-mesa-glx                 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libglapi-mesa                   9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libgles1-mesa                   9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libgles2-mesa                   9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libopenvg1-mesa                 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libosmesa6                      9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2
  libxatracker1                   9.0.3-0ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libegl1-mesa                    8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libegl1-mesa-lts-quantal        9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgbm1                         8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libgbm1-lts-quantal             9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgl1-mesa-dri                 8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-quantal     9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgl1-mesa-glx                 8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-quantal     9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgl1-mesa-swx11               8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libglapi-mesa                   8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libglapi-mesa-lts-quantal       9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgles1-mesa                   8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libgles1-mesa-lts-quantal       9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libgles2-mesa                   8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libgles2-mesa-lts-quantal       9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libglu1-mesa                    8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libopenvg1-mesa                 8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libopenvg1-mesa-lts-quantal     9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3
  libosmesa6                      8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libxatracker1                   8.0.4-0ubuntu0.6
  libxatracker1-lts-quantal       9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1~precise3

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1888-1

CVE-2013-1872, CVE-2013-1993

June 20, 2013

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