vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3418-1 (CVE-2017-2870): GDK-PixBuf vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 30, 2017
Added
Sep 18, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the tiff_image_parse functionality of Gdk-Pixbuf 2.36.6 when compiled with Clang. A specially crafted tiff file can cause a heap-overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a file or a URL to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libgdk-pixbuf2-0-0
Title
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