Executive Summary

Summary
Title Tracker vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3101-1 First vendor Publication 2016-10-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-10-12
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 :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Tracker could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - tracker: metadata database, indexer and search tool

Details:

It was discovered that Tracker incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into downloading a specially-crafted GIF image, Tracker could crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
tracker-extract 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3101-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1178402

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3101-1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-10-14 13:25:02
  • Multiple Updates
2016-10-12 17:24:30
  • First insertion