Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2722-1 Moderate: GDK-PixBuf DoS Threat

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August 26, 2015

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

Summary

GDK-PixBuf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- gdk-pixbuf: GDK Pixbuf library

Details:

Gustavo Grieco discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled scaling

bitmap images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a

BMP image file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf

to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update remote code execution gdk-pixbuf ubuntu

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.31.3-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.30.7-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.26.1-1ubuntu1.2

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