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Ubuntu 25.10 Tracker-Miners Important Denial of Service USN-8019-1

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2026
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical updates for tracker-miners on various Ubuntu versions to prevent exploitation risks and crashes.
tracker-miners could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

tracker-miners could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- tracker-miners: Metadata database, indexer and search tool

Details:

Fatih �elik discovered that tracker-miners incorrectly handled certain

malformed MP3 files. An attacker could use this issue to cause

tracker-miners to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly

execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service file handling Ubuntu important tracker-miners

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 25.10
  tracker-extract                 3.8.2-4ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  tracker-extract                 3.7.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  tracker-extract                 3.3.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8019-1

CVE-2026-1764, CVE-2026-1765, CVE-2026-1766, CVE-2026-1767

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8019-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service file handling Ubuntu important tracker-miners

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.8.2-4ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.7.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.3.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4

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