Security Information / 2015 / Security Information -- DSA-3337-1 gdk-pixbuf

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3337-1 gdk-pixbuf -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Aug 2015

Affected Packages:

gdk-pixbuf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-4491.

More information:

Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of BMP images which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.26.1-1+deb7u3.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.31.1-2+deb8u4.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.31.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.31.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.