USN-3418-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerabilities
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
Description
It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle certain jpeg images. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted jpeg file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-2862)
It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle certain tiff images. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted tiff file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-2870)
Ariel Zelivansky discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle printing certain error messages. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6311)
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.156.0
Mitigation
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 version 1.156.0 or later.
