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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2780-2 Critical: MiniUPnP Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2015
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2781-3 addresses vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, resolving issues that could lead to denial of service and potential data leaks.
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or runprograms as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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:

USN-2780-1 fixed a vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library in Ubuntu

12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 15.10.

Original advisory 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

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  libminiupnpc10                  1.9.20140610-2ubuntu2

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-2780-2

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

CVE-2015-6031

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October 23, 2015

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/miniupnpc/1.9.20140610-2ubuntu2

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