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USN-6806-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

Publication date

5 June 2024

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

Details

Pedro Ribeiro and Vitor Pedreira discovered that the GDK-PixBuf
library did not properly handle certain ANI files. An attacker
could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or to possibly execute arbitrary code.

Pedro Ribeiro and Vitor Pedreira discovered that the GDK-PixBuf
library did not properly handle certain ANI files. An attacker
could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or to 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
24.04 noble libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 –  2.42.10+dfsg-3ubuntu3.1
23.10 mantic libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 –  2.42.10+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 –  2.42.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3
20.04 focal libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 –  2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.5
18.04 bionic libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 –  2.36.11-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  
16.04 xenial libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 –  2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1  

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