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USN-738-1: GLib vulnerability

16 March 2009

GLib vulnerability

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Packages

Details

Diego Petteno discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in GLib did not
properly handle large strings. If a user or automated system were tricked
into processing a crafted Base64 string, an attacker could possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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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 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect
the necessary changes.

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