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Debian: DSA-1851-1 High Severity: Gst-Plugins-Bad0.10 Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2009
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Enhance gst-plugins-bad0.10 to address integer overflow security threats impacting Debian platforms.
It was discovered that gst-plugins-bad0.10, the GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set, is prone to an integer overflow when processing a MED file with a crafted song comment or song...

Summary

It was discovered that gst-plugins-bad0.10, the GStreamer plugins from
the "bad" set, is prone to an integer overflow when processing a MED
file with a crafted song comment or song name.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.7-2+lenny2.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.3-3.1+etch3.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), gst-plugins-bad0.10 links against libmodplug.


We recommend that you upgrade your gst-plugins-bad0.10 packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


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