- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1585-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               Steve Kemp
May 21, 2008                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : speex
Vulnerability  : integer overflow
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-1686

It was discovered that speex, The Speex codec command line tools, did
not correctly did not correctly deal with negative offsets in a particular
header field.  This could allow a malicious file to execute arbitrary
code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
1.1.12-3etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your speex package.


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 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.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- -------------------------------Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:   740110 1bd6cdf3a0ebabf818cd72a3401e2610
      Size/MD5 checksum:    16595 589686ba95740aa4a3e5549f985b2a1e
      Size/MD5 checksum:      878 ab141143903f5ff0b32e42c413ba3bd5

Architecture independent packages:

      Size/MD5 checksum:  1765026 9bda06707fdacf89ce47e3b16184da7e

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    87436 c3c2045fb8d07accaf2b04199fc5e07d
      Size/MD5 checksum:   127628 ae0d23d6542f4ec2b387d3e5129f072f
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27558 4aa4711d1ce23548ede4c7a2cf4d8d41

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    78802 f95d7ce2b1d4eb0d31ac136dc7f9bc42
      Size/MD5 checksum:    25840 e25a296956d4e4d64c800ac2bb9b9d52
      Size/MD5 checksum:   106064 e23d8bb042fea0fcb5e6bdbf320a8c9d

arm architecture (ARM)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    25932 7cfea1ec2ae44fefa975ff298c6c0ad2
      Size/MD5 checksum:    75946 c8dd3e44e83df61526816406f806cf52
      Size/MD5 checksum:    93358 a75dee44feb184451b93b15025fe0481

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    76400 e36b4b453a1c9810c7422c0e9174780e
      Size/MD5 checksum:    25424 878ca5f27331a9fe214c070a058d432a
      Size/MD5 checksum:    93212 3ae87c42c88ea0299e34d34e40f59adf

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    25778 3f5aa30bf033ebee2030d2df8da7ad01
      Size/MD5 checksum:    79550 8579afd56d4fa799b26f99a88697b594
      Size/MD5 checksum:   112552 afed5eb65aaa68d56b0ab1e8ceb7b9ab

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    25658 6bb7e6e3c8b96a19353548fe218986ae
      Size/MD5 checksum:   113464 b4400e5b439a92a73a37624ef39ec156
      Size/MD5 checksum:    79760 f4b7c5d4ee70b35d58a12d9e3d0aacba

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   100110 09ca9b0636b05f702d5460e95a0f2bbf
      Size/MD5 checksum:    77984 d11112e21637cd910fd55202ac039dcb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    25708 3403ccb0987b5e7bbf7c7d988d28b4bf


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: New speex packages fix execution of arbitrary code

May 21, 2008
It was discovered that speex, The Speex codec command line tools, did not correctly did not correctly deal with negative offsets in a particular header field

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