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openSUSE: 2015:0382-1 Important: Snack Buffer Overflow (DoS)

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2015
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Critical upgrade released for cookie package on Debian to address a memory leak vulnerability; suggested installation instructions provided.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

snack was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2012-6303: Heap-based buffer overflow in the GetWavHeader function

in generic/jkSoundFile.c in the Snack Sound Toolkit, as used in

WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of

service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk

size in a WAV file (bnc#793860).

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Topics Covered

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-183=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-183=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

snack-2.2.10-212.4.1

snack-debuginfo-2.2.10-212.4.1

snack-debugsource-2.2.10-212.4.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

snack-2.2.10-210.4.1

snack-debuginfo-2.2.10-210.4.1

snack-debugsource-2.2.10-210.4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6303.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=793860

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0382-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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