USN-268-1: Kaffeine vulnerability
7 April 2006
Kaffeine vulnerability
Releases
Details
Marcus Meissner discovered a buffer overflow in the http_peek()
function. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted
playlist URL with Kaffeine, a remote attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 5.10
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kaffeine
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Ubuntu 5.04
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kaffeine
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.