1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2898-2

USN-2898-2: Eye of GNOME vulnerability

Publication date

15 February 2016

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

  • eog - Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program

Details

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain large
images. 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.

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain large
images. 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

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
15.10 wily eog –  3.16.3-1ubuntu2.1
14.04 trusty eog –  3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1
12.04 precise eog –  3.4.2-0ubuntu1.2

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