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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3069-1
August 25, 2016
eog vulnerability
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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 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 versions:
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
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3069-1
CVE-2016-6855
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3
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