Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Eye of GNOME vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3069-1 First vendor Publication 2016-08-25
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-08-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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 versions:

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

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3069-1
CVE-2016-6855

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-17 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2827-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-06 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1053.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-605.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-26 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3069-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0f8779baa6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-5abbc35b6a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_f5035ead688b11e68b1dc86000169601.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-09-09 00:24:22
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-08 00:24:09
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-27 13:26:29
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-27 00:24:13
  • First insertion