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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS & 12.10: USN-2149-2 Critical: GTK Compatibility Issue

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2014
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Resolution for GTK+ interoperability in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 amid recent security vulnerabilities.
This update provides a compatibility fix for GTK+.

Summary

This update provides a compatibility fix for GTK+.

Software Description:

- gtk+3.0: GTK+ graphical user interface library

Details:

USN-2149-1 fixed a vulnerability in librsvg. This update provides a

compatibility fix for GTK+ to work with the librsvg security update.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that librsvg would load XML external entities by default.

If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted SVG file, an

attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update ubuntu software issues gtk+ compatibility fix librsvg

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libgtk-3-0                      3.6.0-0ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libgtk-3-0                      3.4.2-0ubuntu0.7

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2149-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2149-1

CVE-2013-1881

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March 17, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory update ubuntu software issues gtk+ compatibility fix librsvg

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/3.6.0-0ubuntu3.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/3.4.2-0ubuntu0.7

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