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Debian DSA-2840-1: Critical Buffer Overflow Risk in SRTP Application

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2014
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Debian Security Notice DSA-2841-2 uncovers a severe memory leak in the openssl package, raising concerns for possible vulnerabilities.
Fernando Russ from Groundworks Technologies reported a buffer overflow flaw in srtp, Cisco's reference implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), in how the ...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.4~dfsg-6+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.4+20100615~dfsg-2+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your srtp packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: srtp
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2139

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