1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-498-1

USN-498-1: libvorbis vulnerabilities

Publication date

16 August 2007

Overview

libvorbis vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

David Thiel discovered that libvorbis did not correctly verify the size
of certain headers, and did not correctly clean up a broken stream.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted Vorbis stream,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

David Thiel discovered that libvorbis did not correctly verify the size
of certain headers, and did not correctly clean up a broken stream.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted Vorbis stream,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect 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
7.04 feisty libvorbis0a –  1.1.2.dfsg-1.2ubuntu2
6.10 edgy libvorbis0a –  1.1.2-1ubuntu1.2
6.06 dapper libvorbis0a –  1.1.2-0ubuntu2.2

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