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Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2780-1 Critical: MiniUPnP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2015
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Important Security Alert for Ubuntu: MiniUPnP is susceptible to exploitation through maliciously crafted packets.
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash orrun programs as your login if it received specially crafted networktraffic.

Summary

An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or

run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- miniupnpc: UPnP IGD client lightweight library

Details:

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the

XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker

could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or

possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running

an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu miniupnpc

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libminiupnpc10                  1.9.20140610-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libminiupnpc8                   1.6-3ubuntu2.14.04.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libminiupnpc8                   1.6-3ubuntu1.2

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
the MiniUPnP library to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2780-1

CVE-2015-6031

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October 20, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu miniupnpc

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/miniupnpc/1.9.20140610-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/miniupnpc/1.6-3ubuntu2.14.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/miniupnpc/1.6-3ubuntu1.2

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