USN-2149-2: GTK+ update

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• gtk+3.0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library

Details

USN-2149-1 fixed a vulnerability in librsvg. This update provides a
compatibility fix for GTK+ to work with the librsvg security update.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that librsvg would load XML external entities by default.
If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted SVG file, an
attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

• libgtk-3-0 - 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 12.04

• libgtk-3-0 - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.7

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

References

• CVE-2013-1881

Related notices

• USN-2149-1: librsvg, librsvg2-2