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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5937-1 Critical: Opusfile Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2023
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An Opusfile flaw in Ubuntu may lead to crashes when exposed to specially crafted input. Understand the details behind this vulnerability and how to apply the necessary updates.
Opusfile could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

Opusfile could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- opusfile: debugging symbols for libopusfile

Details:

It was discovered that Opusfile was not properly validating pointer

arguments in some of its functions, which could lead to a NULL pointer

dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

of service or have other unspecified impacts.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue Ubuntu Opusfile

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libopusfile0                    0.9+20170913-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libopusfile0 0.9+20170913-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   libopusfile0 0.9+20170913-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libopusfile0                    0.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5937-1

  CVE-2022-47021

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March 08, 2023

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