USN-108-1: GDK vulnerability

6 April 2005

GDK vulnerability

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10
  • libgtk2.0-0 -
  • libgdk-pixbuf2 -

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

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