USN-2918-1: pixman vulnerability
USN-2918-1: pixman vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2918-1 3rd March, 2016 pixman vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary pixman could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted data. Software description pixman – pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo Details Vincent LE GARREC discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user weretricked into opening a specially crafted file, a remote attacker couldcause pixman to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possiblyexecute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libpixman-1-0 0.30.2-2ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libpixman-1-0 0.30.2-1ubuntu0.0.0.0.3 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart your [ more… ]