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Debian: DSA-3929-1 Critical: Libsoup2.4 Buffer Overflow Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2017
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4567-1 addresses a severe memory corruption in libcurl impacting online service safety.
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in libsoup2.4, a HTTP library implementation in C
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.48.0-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.56.0-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup2.4 packages.

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



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Package: libsoup2.4
CVE ID: CVE-2017-2885

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