Debian Long Term Support / LTS Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DLA-1100-1 gdk-pixbuf

Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1100-1 gdk-pixbuf -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

gdk-pixbuf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 874552.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2862.

More information:

Marcin Noga discovered a buffer overflow in the JPEG loader of the GDK Pixbuf library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is opened.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.26.1-1+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.

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