USN-2898-2: Eye of GNOME vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2898-2

15th February, 2016

eog vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 15.10
• 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 large
images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted image, a
remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:

eog

3.16.3-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

eog

3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

eog

3.4.2-0ubuntu1.2

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

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2013-7447

Source: ubuntu-usn