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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2898-2 Critical: eog Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2016
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A vulnerability in Eye of GNOME may enable attackers to impersonate users or cause system crashes. Immediate updates are critical for Ubuntu users to secure their systems.
Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted image.

Summary

Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted image.

Software Description:

- eog: Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program

Details:

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain large

images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted image, a

remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME to crash,

resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu image issue eog

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  eog                             3.16.3-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  eog                             3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  eog                             3.4.2-0ubuntu1.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2898-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2898-1

CVE-2013-7447

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February 15, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu image issue eog

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.16.3-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.4.2-0ubuntu1.2

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