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Posted on 17 December 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3337-2 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
December 17, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : gdk-pixbuf
CVE ID : CVE-2015-4491
The patch applied for gdk-pixbuf to fix CVE-2015-4491 in DSA 3337-1 was
incomplete. This update corrects that problem. For reference the
original advisory text follows.
Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of BMP images
which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image
is opened.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.26.1-1+deb7u3.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.31.1-2+deb8u4.
For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.31.7-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.31.7-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
