CVE-2017-12447

Publication date 7 March 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

GdkPixBuf (aka gdk-pixbuf), possibly 2.32.2, as used by GNOME Nautilus 3.14.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (stack corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file folder.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gdk-pixbuf	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.32.2-1ubuntu1.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.30.7-0ubuntu1.6

Notes

mdeslaur

in trusty, this was already included in the CVE-2015-7552 patch should also include the following in xenial: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/commit/ca74893a8e06e99b4adc682ee1550bfd020687c7

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gdk-pixbuf	Upstream: b7bf6fb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3912-1
GDK-PixBuf vulnerability
20 March 2019