USN-3069-1: Eye of GNOME vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3069-1

25th August, 2016

eog vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted image.

Software description

• eog - Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program

Details

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain invalid
UTF-8 strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted
image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME 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 16.04 LTS:

eog 3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

eog 3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

eog 3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3

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

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-6855

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2bluCpz