Ubuntu 11.10: 1255-1 Moderate: libmodplug Denial Of Service

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November 9, 2011

libmodplug could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

libmodplug could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libmodplug: Library for mod music based on ModPlug

Details:

Hossein Lotfi discovered that libmodplug did not correctly handle certain

malformed media files. If a user or automated system were tricked into

opening a crafted media file, an attacker could cause a denial of service

or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the

program. (CVE-2011-2911, CVE-2011-2912, CVE-2011-2913)

It was discovered that libmodplug did not correctly handle certain

malformed media files. If a user or automated system were tricked into

opening a crafted media file, an attacker could cause a denial of service

or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the

program. (CVE-2011-2914, CVE-2011-2915)

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update Ubuntu libmodplug

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
  libmodplug1                     1:0.8.8.2-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  libmodplug1                     1:0.8.8.1-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 10.10:
  libmodplug1                     1:0.8.8.1-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libmodplug0c2                   1:0.8.7-1ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.