USN-2722-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2722-1

26th August, 2015

gdk-pixbuf vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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

Gustavo Grieco discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled scaling
bitmap images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
BMP 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.3-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1ubuntu1.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2015-4491

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/1JmdtZl