Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-415-1

USN-415-1: GTK vulnerability

Publication date

1 February 2007

Overview

GTK vulnerability

Releases

Details

A flaw was discovered in the error handling of GTK’s image loading
library. Applications opening certain corrupted images could be made to
crash, causing a denial of service.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect 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
6.10 edgy	libgtk2.0-0 – 2.10.6-0ubuntu3.1
6.06 dapper	libgtk2.0-0 – 2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1
5.10 breezy	libgtk2.0-0 – 2.8.6-0ubuntu2.2

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References

CVE-2007-0010

CVE-2007-0010