USN-6806-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

5 June 2024

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

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Pedro Ribeiro and Vitor Pedreira discovered that the GDK-PixBuf
library did not properly handle certain ANI files. An attacker
could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or to possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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