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Debian DSA-1939-1 Critical: Libvorbis Memory Corruption DoS Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2009
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Upgrade libvorbis components to address vulnerabilities related to memory corruption and potential denial of service scenarios. For more information, please refer to the advisory.
Lucas Adamski, Matthew Gregan, David Keeler, and Dan Kaminsky discovered that libvorbis, a library for the Vorbis general-purpose compressed audio codec, did not correctly handle c...

Summary

Lucas Adamski, Matthew Gregan, David Keeler, and Dan Kaminsky discovered
that libvorbis, a library for the Vorbis general-purpose compressed
audio codec, did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. An
attacher could cause a denial of service (memory corruption and
application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .ogg
file.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.2.dfsg-1.4+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.3-1

We recommend that you upgrade your libvorbis 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 ...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: libvorbis

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