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USN-2149-2: GTK+ update

17 March 2014

This update provides a compatibility fix for GTK+.

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Releases

Packages

  • gtk+3.0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library

Details

USN-2149-1 fixed a vulnerability in librsvg. This update provides a
compatibility fix for GTK+ to work with the librsvg security update.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that librsvg would load XML external entities by default.
If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted SVG file, an
attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

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