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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gdk-pixbuf: GIF loader buffer overflow when initializing decompression tables (CVE-2011-2897)

  - io-tga.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.32.0 uses heap memory after its allocation failed, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) and possibly     execute arbitrary code via a crafted Truevision TGA (TARGA) file. (CVE-2015-7673)

  - Integer overflow in the pixops_scale_nearest function in pixops/pixops.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.32.1     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary     code via a crafted GIF image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2015-7674)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3912-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle certain BMP images. If an user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, a remote attacker could use this     flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199938	RHEL 5 : gdk-pixbuf (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196288	RHEL 5 : gdk-pixbuf (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
123001	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : GDK-PixBuf vulnerability (USN-3912-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2017-12447

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