USN-4780-1: LAME vulnerabilities

29 August 2022

Several security issues were fixed in LAME.

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Releases

Packages

  • lame - MP3 encoding library (frontend)

Details

It was discovered that LAME incorrectly handled certain audio files. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Eight
vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-9099, CVE-2015-9100, CVE-2015-9101, CVE-2017-15018,
CVE-2017-11720, CVE-2017-8419, CVE-2017-9412, CVE-2017-15045) only affected Ubuntu 14.04
ESM, two vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-9410 and CVE-2017-9411) only affected Ubuntu
16.04 ESM, and one vulnerability (CVE-2017-15019) affected both Ubuntu 14.04
ESM and Ubuntu 16.04.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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