USN-1181-1: libsoup vulnerability

28 July 2011

An attacker could send crafted URLs to a SoupServer application and obtain unintended access to files.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

It was discovered that libsoup did not properly validate its input when
processing SoupServer requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to
access files via directory traversal.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that
use libsoup to make all the necessary changes.

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