USN-3383-1: libsoup vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• libsoup2.4 - HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when
handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04

• gir1.2-soup-2.4 - 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
• libsoup-gnome2.4-1 - 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
• libsoup2.4-1 - 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• gir1.2-soup-2.4 - 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
• libsoup-gnome2.4-1 - 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
• libsoup2.4-1 - 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• gir1.2-soup-2.4 - 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
• libsoup-gnome2.4-1 - 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
• libsoup2.4-1 - 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-2885