USN-108-1: GDK vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-108-1

5th April, 2005

gtk+2.0, gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Matthias Clasen discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
BMP image module of gdk. Processing a specially crafted BMP image with
an application using gdk-pixbuf caused an allocated memory block to be
free()'ed twice, leading to a crash of the application. However, it
is believed that this cannot be exploited to execute arbitrary
attacker provided code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10:
libgdk-pixbuf2
libgtk2.0-0

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

None

References

CVE-2005-0891