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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 3337-1] gdk-pixbuf security update



Hi Moritz,

Am 18.08.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Debian Security Advisory DSA-3337-1                   security@debian.org
> https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
> August 18, 2015                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Package        : gdk-pixbuf
> CVE ID         : CVE-2015-4491
> 
> Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of BMP images
> which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image
> is opened.
> 
> For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
> in version 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
> 
> For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
> version 2.31.1-2+deb8u2.

Thanks for taking care of this.
From a cursory glance, the patch in 2.31.1-2+deb8u2 seems to be
incomplete and is missing the follow-up commit [1].

I'll update the package in unstable. Would be great if you can handle
the stable upload.

Regards,
Michael


[1]
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=8dba67cb4f38d62a47757741ad41e3f245b4a32a
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