1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-638-1

USN-638-1: Yelp vulnerability

Publication date

27 August 2008

Overview

Yelp vulnerability

Releases

Packages

Details

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not
handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not
handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user 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
8.04 hardy yelp –  2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3
7.10 gutsy yelp –  2.20.0-0ubuntu3.1

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