USN-1015-1: libvpx vulnerability

Publication date

10 November 2010

Overview

libvpx applications could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases


Packages

Details

Christoph Diehl discovered that libvpx did not properly perform bounds
checking. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted
WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
code as the user invoking the program.

Christoph Diehl discovered that libvpx did not properly perform bounds
checking. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted
WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
code as the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
10.10 maverick libvpx0 –  0.9.2-1ubuntu0.1

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