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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-605-1 eog -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

eog

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6855.

More information:

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain invalid UTF-8 strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1+build1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your eog packages.

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