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Ubuntu 16.04: USN-3085-1 Critical: GDK-PixBuf DoS Threat

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On November 15, 2017, Debian released a security advisory regarding vulnerabilities in the LibXML library that might lead to program crashes or code execution.
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:

It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle specially

crafted bmp images, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. If a user or

automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted bmp 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. This issue only

affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-7552)

It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library contained an integer overflow

when handling certain images. If a user or automated system were tricked into

opening a crafted 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.30.7-0ubuntu1.6

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.26.1-1ubuntu1.5

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3085-1

  CVE-2015-7552, CVE-2015-8875, CVE-2016-6352

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Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.30.7-0ubuntu1.6
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.26.1-1ubuntu1.5

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