Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1234-1 gdk-pixbuf -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
08 Jan 2018
Affected Packages:
gdk-pixbuf
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000422.
More information:

It was discovered that there were several integer overflows in gdk-pixbuf, a library to manipulate images for the GTK graphics toolkit. This could have led to memory corruption and potential code execution.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in gdk-pixbuf version 2.26.1-1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.