Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-550-2
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
USN-550-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Cairo. The upstream fixes were incomplete, and under certain situations, applications using Cairo would crash with a floating point error. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data.
By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
libcairo regression on Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5503 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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