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Fedora 34 mingw-speex Security Advisory: Critical CVE-2020-23903 DoS

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolution for mingw-speex addresses a significant concern in Fedora 34 concerning divide by zero vulnerability. Further update information provided herein.
Backport fix for CVE-2020-23903.

Summary

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for

speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in

the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP

(VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech

data (e.g. voice mail).

Backport fix for CVE-2020-23903.

* Mon Nov 22 2021 Sandro Mani - 1.2.0-9

- Backport patch for CVE-2020-23903

* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.2.0-8

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2024251 - CVE-2020-23903 mingw-speex: speex: divide by zero in read_samples() via crafted WAV file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024251

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-73c086ef46' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 1.2.0
Release: 9.fc34
Summary: Voice compression format (codec)

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