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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-739-1 March 17, 2009 amarok vulnerabilities CVE-2009-0135, CVE-2009-0136 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.10: amarok 2:1.4.7-0ubuntu3.2 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: amarok 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.2 Ubuntu 8.10: amarok 2:1.4.10-0ubuntu3.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that Amarok did not correctly handle certain malformed tags in Audible Audio (.aa) files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Audible Audio file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.