USN-2670-1: libwmf vulnerabilities

8 July 2015

libwmf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • libwmf - Windows metafile conversion tools

Details

Fernando Muñoz and Stefan Cornelius discovered that libwmf incorrectly
handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were
tricked into opening a crafted image file, an attacker could cause a denial
of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking
the program.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

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

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