1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-108-1

USN-108-1: GDK vulnerability

Publication date

6 April 2005

Overview

GDK vulnerability

Releases

Details

Matthias Clasen discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
BMP image module of gdk. Processing a specially crafted BMP image with
an application using gdk-pixbuf caused an allocated memory block to be
free()’ed twice, leading to a crash of the application. However, it
is believed that this cannot be exploited to execute arbitrary
attacker provided code.

Matthias Clasen discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
BMP image module of gdk. Processing a specially crafted BMP image with
an application using gdk-pixbuf caused an allocated memory block to be
free()’ed twice, leading to a crash of the application. However, it
is believed that this cannot be exploited to execute arbitrary
attacker provided code.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty libgtk2.0-0 – 
libgdk-pixbuf2 – 

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