USN-638-1: Yelp vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• yelp -

Details

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not
handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

• yelp - 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3

Ubuntu 7.10

• yelp - 2.20.0-0ubuntu3.1

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

References

• CVE-2008-3533