USN-3379-1: Shotwell vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• shotwell - digital photo organizer

Details

It was discovered that Shotwell is vulnerable to an information disclosure
in the web publishing plugins resulting in potential password and oauth token
plaintext transmission.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04

• shotwell - 0.22.0+git20160108.r1.f2fb1f7-0ubuntu3.1
• shotwell-common - 0.22.0+git20160108.r1.f2fb1f7-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• shotwell - 0.22.0+git20160108.r1.f2fb1f7-0ubuntu1.1
• shotwell-common - 0.22.0+git20160108.r1.f2fb1f7-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• shotwell - 0.18.0-0ubuntu4.5
• shotwell-common - 0.18.0-0ubuntu4.5

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

References

• CVE-2017-1000024