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Ubuntu 20.10 & 20.04 USN-4743-1 Critical: GDK-PixBuf Denial of Service

ubuntu
Calendar Grey February 22, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
PNG-Crystal vulnerability may cause failures while handling specially designed PNG images; prompt upgrade advised.
GDK-PixBuf could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu gdk-pixbuf ubuntu crash issue GDK-PixBuf

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.10: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2 After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4743-1

CVE-2021-20240

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February 22, 2021

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu gdk-pixbuf ubuntu crash issue GDK-PixBuf

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.40.0+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2

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