Ubuntu 15.04 LTS USN-2670-1 Moderate: libwmf Denial Of Service

ubuntu

July 8, 2015

libwmf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

libwmf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libwmf: Windows metafile conversion tools

Details:

Fernando Muñoz and Stefan Cornelius discovered that libwmf incorrectly

handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were

tricked into opening a crafted image file, an attacker could cause a denial

of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking

the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu severity moderate libwmf

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libwmf0.2-7                     0.2.8.4-10.3ubuntu1.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
  libwmf0.2-7                     0.2.8.4-10.3ubuntu1.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libwmf0.2-7                     0.2.8.4-10.3ubuntu1.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libwmf0.2-7                     0.2.8.4-10ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.