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  2. USN-3912-1

USN-3912-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

Publication date

20 March 2019

Overview

GDK-PixBuf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle
certain BMP images. If an user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted BMP 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.

It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle
certain BMP images. If an user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted BMP 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

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to 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
16.04 xenial libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 –  2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6

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