Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3069-1
25th August, 2016
eog vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
Eye of GNOME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted image.
Software description
- eog
- Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
eog
3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
eog
3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
eog
3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.