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USN-6806-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6806-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 – 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 – 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common – 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev – 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-doc – 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-48622.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • cflinuxfs4
    • All versions prior to 1.99.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 41.0.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below.

The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

  • cflinuxfs4
    • Upgrade all versions to 1.99.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade all versions to 41.0.0 or greater

History

2024-07-25: Initial vulnerability report published.

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