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Ubuntu 21.10: Critical Security Update for Speex Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Uncover significant vulnerability in Speex on Ubuntu impacting various editions, with insights on patches and remedies.
Speex could be made to denial of service if it received a specially crafted WAV file.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu speex

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 21.10: speex 1.2~rc1.2-1.1ubuntu1.21.10.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: speex 1.2~rc1.2-1.1ubuntu1.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: speex 1.2~rc1.2-1ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: speex 1.2~rc1.2-1ubuntu1+esm1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5280-1

CVE-2020-23903

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February 10, 2022

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu speex

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speex/1.2~rc1.2-1.1ubuntu1.21.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speex/1.2~rc1.2-1.1ubuntu1.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speex/1.2~rc1.2-1ubuntu2.1

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