Referenced CVEs: CVE-2008-4316
Description: =========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-738-1 March 16, 2009 glib2.0 vulnerability CVE-2008-4316 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.10: libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-1ubuntu1.1 libglib2.0-udeb 2.14.1-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.1 libglib2.0-udeb 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 8.10: libglib2.0-0 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1 libglib2.0-udeb 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Diego Petten discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in GLib did not properly handle large strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a crafted Base64 string, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.