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Fedora 43 vorbis-tools Important Buffer Underflow CVE-2026-34253

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for Fedora 43's vorbis-tools addressing CVE-2026-34253 involving buffer underflow and execution risk.
CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow

Summary

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free,

general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed

and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel.

The vorbis package contains an encoder, a decoder, a playback tool, and a

comment editor.

Update Information:

CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important arbitrary execution buffer underflow vorbis-tools

Change Log

* Tue Jun 9 2026 Lukáš Zaoral - 1:1.4.3-4 - CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow (rhbz#2479549)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2479549 - CVE-2026-34253 vorbis-tools: vorbis-tools ogg123: Arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow in remote control functionality [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479549

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-cbf4cd18d1' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: vorbis-tools
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 1.4.3
Release: 4.fc43
URL: https://www.xiph.org/
Summary: The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec tools

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important arbitrary execution buffer underflow vorbis-tools

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