USN-737-1: libsoup vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• libsoup -

Details

It was discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in libsoup did not
properly handle large strings. If a user were tricked into connecting to a
malicious server, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• libsoup2.2-8 - 2.2.100-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libsoup2.2-8 - 2.2.93-0ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-0585