USN-3069-1: Eye of GNOME vulnerability
USN-3069-1: Eye of GNOME vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3069-1 25th August, 2016 eog vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted image. Software description eog – Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program Details It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain invalidUTF-8 strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-craftedimage, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME tocrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrarycode. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: eog 3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: eog 3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: [ more… ]
