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Gentoo: 200909-02 Advisory: Libvorbis Service Denial Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2009
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Security alert for Gentoo: libvorbis vulnerability exposes risk of arbitrary code execution.
A processing error in libvorbis might result in the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libvorbis: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: September 07, 2009 Bugs: #280590 ID: 200909-02

Synopsis ======= A processing error in libvorbis might result in the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Background ========= libvorbis is the reference implementation of the Xiph.org Ogg Vorbis audio file format. It is used by many applications for playback of Ogg Vorbis files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libvorbis < 1.2.3 >= 1.2.3
========== Lucas Adamski reported that libvorbis does not correctly process fi...

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