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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3101-1 Critical: Vulnerability in Tracker Service

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2016
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Upgrade your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to resolve the Tracker failure triggered by corrupted GIF files alongside essential software patches.
Tracker could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Tracker could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- tracker: metadata database, indexer and search tool

Details:

It was discovered that Tracker incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF

images. If a user or automated system were tricked into downloading a

specially-crafted GIF image, Tracker could crash, resulting in a denial of

service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update Ubuntu tracker

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  tracker-extract                 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1178402

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October 12, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update Ubuntu tracker

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1

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