Articles by KENNETH

USN-3418-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3418-1 18th September, 2017 gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary GDK-PixBuf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description gdk-pixbuf – GDK Pixbuf library Details It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handlecertain jpeg images. If an user or automated system were tricked intoopening a specially crafted jpeg file, a remote attacker could use thisflaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, orpossibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-2862) It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handlecertain tiff images. If an user or automated system were tricked intoopening a specially crafted tiff file, a remote attacker could use [ more… ]