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Ubuntu 16.04: USN-3912-1 Critical Vulnerability in GDK-PixBuf DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in GDK-PixBuf may result in a system crash or unauthorized code execution when processing specially crafted BMP files on Ubuntu 16.04.
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

certain BMP images. If an 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu GDK-PixBuf

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3912-1

CVE-2017-12447

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March 20, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu GDK-PixBuf

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6

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