Scientific Linux: CVE-2008-1686 Critical: Speex Code Execution Risk

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:27:48 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for speex on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: speex security update
Issue date:	2008-04-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1686

The Speex library was found to not properly validate input values read from
the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file
that would crash an application or, possibly, allow arbitrary code
execution with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library.
(CVE-2008-1686)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.src.rpm
 i386:
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
speex-devel-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
speex-devel-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.src.rpm
 i386:
speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm
speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
speex-devel-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson