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Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS: USN-3383-1 Critical Libsoup Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.10 vulnerable via libsoup overflow. Patch now to avert service disruption or system breach.
Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programsas your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs

as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- libsoup2.4: HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details:

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when

handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a

denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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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 17.04:
  gir1.2-soup-2.4                 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
  libsoup-gnome2.4-1              2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
  libsoup2.4-1                    2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  gir1.2-soup-2.4                 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
  libsoup-gnome2.4-1              2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
  libsoup2.4-1                    2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  gir1.2-soup-2.4                 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
  libsoup-gnome2.4-1              2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
  libsoup2.4-1                    2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

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

References

CVE-2017-2885

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August 10, 2017

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu stack overflow libsoup

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

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