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USN-682-1: libvorbis vulnerabilities

1 December 2008

libvorbis vulnerabilities

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Details

It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed
sound files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted sound
file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could execute
arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use libvorbis, such as Totem and gtkpod, to effect the necessary changes.

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