USN-1370-1: libvorbis vulnerability
20 February 2012
libvorbis could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libvorbis - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
Details
It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed
ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file
with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial
of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.