Advisories » MGASA-2015-0313

Updated gdk-pixbuf2.0 package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Aug 2015
Modification date: 13 Aug 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-4491

Description

Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported a heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf.
This issue is triggered by the scaling of a malformed bitmap format image
and results in a potentially exploitable crash (CVE-2015-4491).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16367
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-88/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/13/2
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4491

SRPMS

5/core

• gdk-pixbuf2.0-2.31.2-2.1.mga5