Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2898-2
15th February, 2016
eog vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.10
- 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 large
images. 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 15.10:
eog
3.16.3-1ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
eog
3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
eog
3.4.2-0ubuntu1.2
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.