1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3383-1

USN-3383-1: libsoup vulnerability

Publication date

10 August 2017

Overview

Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

  • libsoup2.4 - HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when
handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when
handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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
17.04 zesty gir1.2-soup-2.4 –  2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 –  2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
libsoup2.4-1 –  2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial gir1.2-soup-2.4 –  2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 –  2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
libsoup2.4-1 –  2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 trusty gir1.2-soup-2.4 –  2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 –  2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
libsoup2.4-1 –  2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

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