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USN-2047-1: pixman vulnerability

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USN-2047-1: pixman vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/03/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/03/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Bryan Quigley discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user weretricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause adenial of service via application crash. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart your session to makeall the necessary changes. LP: 1197921

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpixman-1-0

References

  • USN-2047-1
  • CVE-2013-6425

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