gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities

15 January 2018

gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in GDK-PixBuf.

Software Description

• gdk-pixbuf - GDK Pixbuf library

Details

It was discoreved that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled certain gif images. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-1000422)

Ariel Zelivansky discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6312, CVE-2017-6313)

Ariel Zelivansky discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled large TIFF files. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6314)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 - 2.36.11-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 - 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 - 2.30.7-0ubuntu1.8

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-1000422
• CVE-2017-6312
• CVE-2017-6313
• CVE-2017-6314