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TITLE:
GTK+ "GdkPixbufLoader()" Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23884

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23884/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
GTK+ 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3909/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in GTK+, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the
"GdkPixbufLoader()" when handling certain malformed input. This can
be exploited to crash an application using the library by tricking it
into processing specially crafted image files.

SOLUTION:
Open trusted image files only or use applications that do not use the
GTK+ library.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Arjan van de Ven in a Red Hat bug.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218755

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0019.html

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