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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-5554-1 Critical: GDK-PixBuf Crash Threat

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A security flaw in GDK-PixBuf enables crashing or unauthorized program execution through specially crafted PNG files in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
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:

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly

handle certain GIF images. If an user or automated system were tricked into

opening a specially crafted GIF 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu Denial of Service crash threat GDK-PixBuf

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3

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

References

CVE-2021-46829

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August 08, 2022

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu Denial of Service crash threat GDK-PixBuf

Package Information

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

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