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Critical Advisory: DoS Threat in libvorbis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2018
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Canonical releases an essential security patch for libavcodec, addressing a video handling flaw in Ubuntu 20.04.
An update for libvorbis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in programs that support Ogg Vorbis, a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporter.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS important Mozilla Red Hat Enterprise libvorbis

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5146 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: libvorbis-devel-docs-1.3.3-8.el7.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm libvorbis-devel-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-devel-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: libvorbis-devel-docs-1.3.3-8.el7.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm libvorbis-devel-1.3.3-8.el7.1.i686.rpm libvorbis-devel-1.3.3-8.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.src.rpm
ppc64: libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.ppc.rpm libvorbis-1.3.3-8.el7.1.ppc64.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.ppc.rpm libvorbis-debuginfo-1.3.3-8.el7.1.ppc64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1058-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1058
Issue date: 2018-04-10

Topic

An update for libvorbis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS important Mozilla Red Hat Enterprise libvorbis

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1557221 - CVE-2018-5146 Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08)

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