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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:

Summary

Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted image.

Software description

Details

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain invalid
UTF-8 strings. 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 16.04 LTS:
eog

3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
eog

3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
eog

3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3

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-2016-6855

Source: USN-3069-1: Eye of GNOME vulnerability

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