=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2780-1
October 20, 2015

miniupnpc vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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.

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

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

Ubuntu 2780-1: MiniUPnP vulnerability

October 20, 2015
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash orrun programs as your login if it received specially crafted networktraffic.

Summary

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

Severity
October 20, 2015

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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