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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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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
- --------------------

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 ...

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Package: libvorbis

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